Deep Valley Book Festival
Today is the Deep Valley Book Festival. It's a free Zoom/Virtual festival. I forgot to post it here, but I've been listening since 9 a.m., and have already found it inspiring and helpful. https://www.deepvalleybookfestival.com/cabin-fever-schedule I'm part of a panel...
The Bear and the Wild Rose (Tom Jackson and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra)
The Bear and the Wild Rose https://calgaryphil.com/concerts/highlights/the-bear-and-the-wild-rose/ My daughter and son-in-law play in this amazing collaboration between the Tom Jackson Band (Canadian, First Nations/Indigenous) and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra....
“These Precious Days” by Ann Patchett
I'm not a big essay reader. I like to be sucked into a novel (it can also happen in a work of nonfiction) and get dragged by my heart all the way to the end of the book. I realized this about myself when I fell in love with Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country (read it...
Screenplay first draft–check
Well, the screenplay of Chasing AllieCat is written to completion--as in the first draft. I've written what I can write until I get feedback from Steph, the Director/Producer who wants to make this film and has all the movie experience. She'll go through it and make...
13 years ago yesterday, John Updike died
John Updike is dead. How can such a mind, such a spirit be no longer in the world? The eternal mystery. It doesn't seem possible. It was 13 years ago, but since he made such a huge impact on me as a reader and a writer, I wanted to remember him, 13 years after the...
That time of year…Shakespeare
That time of year thou may’st in me behold…
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