This 1,000 year old linden tree has such a perfect shape from the outside. A really old tree gives me a new perspective on life
This post is for all you readers of English language books who are living in or visiting Paris. Maybe you need a book for the
Construction machines are wasted without a little child to sit in a lawn chair and appreciate the show. This last week, I kept a list
In 2017, I participated in the local community garden for the first time. A new growing season is always a hopeful time for me. No
This weekend, my husband and I went looking for a half-circle of oaks he knew from thirty years ago. (No comments from the peanut gallery
Sometimes learning something that you had given up on changes your whole view of the world. James Rhodes’ How to Play Piano teaches rank beginners
This year, my husband gave me a Page-a-Day calendar to learn Italian. Today’s page was a dialogue between two men at a bus stop, getting
A year ago, I wrote about our “rastafarian” Joseph and the challenges of writing about other people’s cultures: Skin-colored Felt: Doing other people’s cultures wrong.
This is the fourth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. You can find the first post
Yesterday, Germany celebrated the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, (literally, the “Day of German Unity.”) It’s the day when East and West Germany came back together
I’ve been reading Susan Kaye Quinn‘s Indie Author Survival Guide (Second Edition) Crafting a Self-Publishing Career Book 1). In spite of the title, the book
This is the sixth post in my Writing Gratitude Countdown. As we gain more experience as writers, we learn to value different things. Writing contests
