featherbooks
Nov 54 min read
Thinking of you all out there in the Evening as we fret, hope, stew and wait.
Cookies and books to read.
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featherbooks
Sep 205 min read
There you are! Whatcha Been Doing?
Greetings loyal readers! Where has the summer gone? I looked back at various drafts I wrote intending to get a letter out to you all and...
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featherbooks
Mar 203 min read
Springtime
We're very excited by the cherry blossoms which cover the street two blocks north of our house and fill us with hope and a desire to...
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featherbooks
Jan 245 min read
So here we are in 2024
Happy New Year - we made it to 2024! No resolutions here, but I like the idea of intentions i.e. write daily and submit work, breathe...
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featherbooks
Dec 11, 20233 min read
We Made It to December!
Holiday Greetings! We are recovering from the loss of our treasured canine family member, Leo the Wonderdog, the pink-nosed Labradoodle,...
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featherbooks
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Nuts to the End of PDT! Somebody ought to pass a law!
Fall back this Sunday? Already? Nothing quite moves along like the changing of the clocks, but anything that moves us along will be...
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featherbooks
Sep 9, 20234 min read
There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived*
Crape Myrtle pruning from the Doc's tree up the alley Greetings to All - does September fill you with hope? Or distress that summer is...
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featherbooks
Jul 28, 20234 min read
Evanescence is not just a rock band
Of late I'm preoccupied with the fleeting & frightening facts of life. A friend's only child was killed in a motorcycle crash. My...
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featherbooks
Jun 29, 20233 min read
Writing Workshop on the Umatilla Reservation June 2023
For a decade or so, I've attended Martha Gies' Traveler's Mind Workshops, writing for a week in Spain, Nicaragua, Colombia, India,...
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featherbooks
May 10, 20232 min read
Eat Breakfast, Read Books!
A word about breakfast: Michael eats it later. Leo skips it. I dive right in on awakening, even before coffee. An old favorite from my...
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featherbooks
Apr 22, 20232 min read
Earth Day!
An Earth Day reminder from Dr. Loren Eisley (1907-1977): "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so...
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featherbooks
Apr 14, 20232 min read
Cherry Blossoms, Blue Skies - can this be Seattle?
The morning is lost in newspapers, books and online reading. We take a family walk. The cherry trees are all abloom giving hope in what...
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featherbooks
Apr 7, 20232 min read
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” Ferlinghetti
Season's greetings if you are celebrating this weekend. We are lucky enough to have one Seder and two Easter meals lined up with at least...
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featherbooks
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Want a postcard?
Would you like to get a postcard from me? Just let me know your address. I find I have a postcard from almost every place I've ever been,...
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featherbooks
Feb 11, 20234 min read
Lucky and Grateful for Past Travels
Thinking of our 2011 trip to Eastern Turkey and Syria just before war, here is a link to a PBS article on where to send donations for...
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featherbooks
Feb 1, 20231 min read
Georgian Fire is up!
Our garlic shoots are looking up Reminded yesterday by this writer https://alexandradanewrites.com/ of the importance of short, punchy...
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featherbooks
Dec 23, 20221 min read
Holiday Greetings
After fumbling around on Spotify for unique and mood appropriate Christmas music, I opened an email from Author Natalie Serber, and...
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featherbooks
Dec 16, 20221 min read
All I want for Christmas are books
Books, books, books December 16, 2022 Not only do you have suggestions below of my top reads this year, here are some ideas from...
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featherbooks
Nov 23, 20222 min read
Thanksgiving
"Tell me something you’re thankful for. It can be as abstract or concrete as you want. (Examples: “My health” or “Reese’s Pieces” or “the...
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