Let us follow the forest path towards an ancient bridge from the Iron Age, built by the Osismii (Osismes locally) — Gallic Celts who were here before the arrival of the Romans. There have been settlements in this area going back 700,000 years, to ancestors we can hardly imagine. By neolithic times (late Stone Age) […]
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Keeping the connection alive — an urgent call to tend to one another
On the blog pages here on this site you’ll find 165 newsletters discussing writing process, how we live creative lives, living in hope in a challenging world, how to connect with nature as part of of our creative path, and the crucial questions of what story we want to write and what story we want […]
A conversation about smiling at grief…
Thanks to Fiona Owen for this wonderful conversation that digs deep into writing process and why story matters. Fiona Owen lives on the island of Anglesey/Ynys Môn in North Wales, UK with her husband, Gorwel, and two collies, Mabon & Beca. She writes poetry and short fiction, primarily, has a shared daily haiku habit and […]
smiling at grief
the real L’Autre Rive Every novel I’ve written has been a love story — not a romance, but about those connections that are so deep that they change us, those connections that can unravel as well as transform us. smiling at grief in a house in a forest where life grows is no exception. The […]
… where life grows
Every book is like birth. It’s exhilarating and exhausting, it’s a delight to see something new emerge and yet feel full of fear for this fragile being out in the world. And every time, I think there will not be another one. Every time, after the burst of creativity, I emerge from dwelling in the […]
Writing into the green and the light
We are just past the shortest day, the longest night. In the Celtic calendar the Solstice brings us to the still point of the year. So much in nature has died back that the flashes of green that remain become powerful metaphors for the journey through the darker, shorter days. Perhaps we bring in a […]