August 2020
Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils
Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils Three black and white composition notebooks. Three dozen sharpened #2 pencils. Three weeks out on the water. Every July, this [...]
July 2020
The Reading Corner Newsletter
The Reading Corner Newsletter July 2020 Hello Readers! Welcome to my first newsletter! I aim to keep you informed of my professional life, with snippets of [...]
June 2020
Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel
Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back centuries where the American West lives on [...]
May 2020
Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread
Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread In this Time of Coronavirus, there’s been an uptick in reading, puzzle piecing, game playing, and bread baking as people find [...]
April 2020
This Not-So-Little Light of Mine
This Not-So-Little Light of Mine You might say I’ve always been a walking poster child of Henry Dixon Loes’s classic Sunday School song: This little light of [...]
March 2020
Nine Out of Ten
Nine Out of Ten I won’t ever climb Mt. Everest. After reading Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” the account of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expedition that left [...]
