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Said and Done
There are so many stories and thoughts I'd like to share. I consider them noteworthy, or, blogworthy if you will.
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Mar 25, 2024
Excerpt: "The Age of Sail to the Space Age..."
Excerpt from Chapter 1: A CAPE COD CHILDHOOD “I am a Cape Codder by birth and by inheritance through a long, unbroken line of ancestors…...
Feb 2, 2024
Excerpt: "...[Bass] recognized a potential solution to the complex requirements of underwater archaeology..."
Early in his career, George Bass understood technology would define the future of underwater archaeology and his career. Scuba gear made...
Feb 1, 2024
Excerpt...."It was an ordinary Monday morning in early summer, 1911..."
This year, 2024, the work of Thornton Burgess as a naturalist, wildlife advocate and children’s author will be honored by year-long...
Sep 4, 2020
A “poem-athon” produces a book: Pebbles in the Stream
Since I was assigning the poems to writers who had agreed to be tapped for the 2020 Literary Arts “Poem-athon,” I gave the first...
Sep 3, 2020
WHAT'S BEHIND THE LITERARY ARTS "POEMATHON?"
THE POWER OF A POEM In the spring days following the upheaval to our lives by COVID-19, new lifestyles and urgent needs were created that...
Jul 16, 2020
Bringing Clarity to Your Writing
Writing is always about bringing clarity to the subject. The more historical research, the greater the clarity a writer can provide....
Feb 27, 2020
A Place of Honor
The places of honor for artwork vary by house and owner. The bathroom in my house is a place where one pauses, detaches and closes a door...
Jan 28, 2020
Saving Wildlife - and Ourselves
If you have children, care about animals, or need any further reasons to accept that wildlife extinction is a fact of life on our...
Sep 10, 2019
Keep music in your life, friends!
What is it about music that binds us to time and place? Woodstock, for example. Here it is, 50 years after an event that called . . .
Jun 12, 2019
Unkind Thoughts on Poetry
Poems can be so irritating to write. Why? Some years ago I heard a dazzling great writer, maybe Margaret Atwood, provide one answer. She...
Apr 19, 2017
WORRY
I worry about small things. Children. Weeds. A crack in the plaster of the wall in my family room. The violet plant that is not thriving....
Apr 7, 2017
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month, a time to read and/or write a few. Perhaps you can recall poems you have indiscriminately encountered over your...
Mar 20, 2017
Nature & Conservancy in a Read-Aloud, Child-Friendly Package
When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to...
Mar 16, 2017
"Nature's Ambassador" at MA Audubon Birders' Meeting This Weekend!
I look forward to meeting participants and signing copies of Nature's Ambassador at Mass Audubon's 2017 Birders Meeting this weekend on...
Mar 9, 2017
ART AND FEAR
I recently attended a small, intimate gathering of artists and writers, all members of the National League of American Pen Women, to...
Feb 22, 2017
"...a Pied Piper of a book..."
When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to...
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