Sunday Poetry: By the Highway Home
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Today’s poem is Reluctance by Robert Frost. Are you reluctant to let go of something in your life? Are you hanging on when you shouldn’t because you need to move on? Are you afraid to…
Read MoreLists: People I Really Want to Read About
Remember “lists?” I introduced my first list on the 13th, and you responded with wonderful additions. You can read the comments if you click on the link. Here’s my next and last list for January. Anyone who adds an item by commenting on either post by January 31, is entered in a drawing for an…
Read MoreEverybody Loves a Hero
Novelists watch life unfold and shake our heads. There’s a test to tell just how absurd it all is. We ask ourselves, what our would editors say if we went to them with a particularly odd story. For example: “Have I got an idea for you. Let me do a modern day Titanic novel, okay? Only this…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: I Have No Name
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Our family just welcomed a baby boy, my first grandson, and today’s poem, Infant Joy by William Blake, is for Liam Michael, born January 12th, and precious, as all babies everywhere are. Infant Joy…
Read MoreThe Write Way: Setting Up A Series
This week, in addition to meeting my new grandson, I also met my new cover. One of these I adored on sight. (I’ll let you guess which.) Sometimes that happens. The new cover is for the first book in a series, One Mountain Away, which debuts in August. The series is titled Goddesses Anonymous. This…
Read MoreGone Visiting. . .
Today I’m visiting my brand new grandson, and so glad to be! Although going north in January? I just pulled my boots out of storage. For fun, why not do a little traveling, too, to the websites of three special women. You won’t need your boots, just a little time. These writers have all given me “quotes”…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A Lovely Hum of Spirits
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. All that lovely warm weather, then suddenly winter. I’ve saved Shoveling Snow for just the right moment, and this surely is the one. It’s an enchanting poem. I may be a Floridian at heart, but even…
Read MoreLists: I Really Want to Know. . . Don’t You?
Drumroll, please. Today’s the first post in a new category at Southern Exposure. If you like it I’ll probably do this as often as I come up with new lists. Because this category is ALL about lists. The fun part is that if you comment on this post and any other “Lists” posts this month, adding your…
Read MoreJudging Other People’s Books. What Do I Know?
Last summer I was asked to give input into a new literary prize in the making. Input is easy to give. I explained my take on several items in question and enjoyed the company of other writerly persons in the room. I thought I was finished. Then in November I received my judging instructions. Now,…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Of Time and Vinyl
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here I had a poem in place for today, a poem about shoveling snow. Then the warm spell came. I’ve walked my dog most of the week just wearing a hoodie, and I’m about to…
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