[[ I first encountered Elizabeth Jane Howard when I found a new edition of her early novel, The Long View, at a small independent bookstore in San Francisco in 1991. The book instantly soared to my top five all time favorites list and has remained there ever since. A brilliant study of a marriage, the […]
Note: the following remarks are entirely my personal opinion. I make no assumptions as to what other bloggers prefer. I’m not suggesting that anyone else needs to pay heed to my thoughts. Whenever I have occasion to follow lots of links to blogs on other hosts, I’m reminded of how much I appreciate the WordPress […]
From the day I started my first blog I’ve had a promise to myself that I’d just post once a week if that’s all I wanted to do. I’m blogging much more than that these days. I now have three blogs, so I often wind up posting something somewhere most days. But I’m reluctant […]
It’s taken me a while to realize that instead of feeling sparked by participating in writing 101, I’ve felt increasingly stultified. After the first few, for some reason the prompts left me cold and the more I tried to participate the more I felt my posts growing stiffer and less me. Instead of finding a […]
The 15th assignment for writing 101 arrived on the heels of finding out that a 17-year-old restaurant in town is closing its doors. The assignment: Think of an event you’ve attended and loved and imagine that it it’s been canceled or taken over. Jonathan’s is more of a destination than an event. But it has […]
At 12 we moved from the “big city” of Flint, MI to a small town nearby. Our new quad-level was considerably larger than the house we’d had in Flint and my dad, who came from a pretty poor family, was so proud. Although I’d rarely played the game, I was for some reason thrilled that […]
The next big leap arrived in the early 90’s. The Universe led me along a surprising path (in the sense that I’m surprised I went down it…) that led to seeing myself in a new light. I’d moved to my family’s home base, Lexington, KY. Though I never lived there, I’d visited all my life […]
Over the course of the next years of yoga, meditation, workshops and practice, I know I changed. I was particularly aware of generally feeling happier and more optimistic. During that time frame my health problems were coming to light and I think coping with that kept me less aware of progress than I might have […]
Don’t say it. I know. I’m getting more and more behind. I’m now on a path labeled, “I’ll do what I can.” Assignment 4 asks us to reflect on something we lost and to do it over several posts (so imagine my surprise when there was a different assignment the next day…). My biggest loss […]
I always feel a slump coming on when I see or hear the question what are your three (two, four, six) favorite songs. I’ve loved music all my life. Took piano and voice lessons for many, many years, sang in choirs, sang in a band. I love jazz, string quartets, most—definitely not all—rock and […]
Scribblings from the Bluegrass 
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