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Discovering January
Tracks in the snow and the semester starts and I'm ready enough
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A Wintry Mix
On gifts and Gifts
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Mystery & Magic in November
... and one year of Cake & Poetry!
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Autumn Beauty (and busyness)
I’m beginning this post from Northern Michigan where earlier today (September 28) I taught a workshop at the Glen Arbor Art Center on ekphrastic poetry…
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Back to School
—though it really is still summer, right?
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The Many Moods of August
Looking back, looking ahead, trying to savor it all right here, right now
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Ah, Summer!
On birthdays and sunsets, poems and baking, weaving and wishes and more!
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On Gardens and Writing and Not Writing and Summertime Sweetness
One of my all-time favorite books is Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin. This story, from 1904, never fails to fill me with the good kind of…
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Country Mouse
In which A Country Mouse goes to the City to see, well, country mice and rabbits and cats...
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In My Nancy Drew Era
I mean, always, but especially this summer
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April Things
Happy surprises on the page and on the loom and in the garden
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What's Working for You?
Poem Diagrams and Poem Recipes, Mandy and the Weaving Closet, Cupcakes and Quick Bread
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