Wooo–whooo!! THANKS to YOU—devoted Followers—this blog is 4 years old! To celebrate I’m launching a new feature: IN A NUTSHELL: an audio blogcast where I will share my writings, research interviews ~ and what not. This first episode is a revised version of the pages I read on Friday, October 23 at Rant & Reverie, a fundraiser for Novato (CA)… Continue reading Celebrating 4 Years!
Category: The Skinny
Upcoming Reading ~ This Friday, Oct. 23 in Novato
Hello All…long time no see, but I’m back with good news: I’ll be reading from the homestretch draft of my novel, Peach Seed Monkey, this coming Friday here in Novato, CA. I hope you locals can come out and join the Rant & Reverie to raise money for the renovation of Novato Theatre. Update ~ Early last… Continue reading Upcoming Reading ~ This Friday, Oct. 23 in Novato
Another Year
Nanny Goat Beach on Sapelo Island: Dec 2014. Photo by Miranda Roehrick Propped up on my pillows while the house still sleeps, my mind skips backwards to my first home house, now a parking lot_literally. The second home house is now somebody else’s rental. My first family, Silas, Irene & Betty, live now only… Continue reading Another Year
President Obama: “What could more American than this?” [Bloody Sunday]
Last night I read from John Garner’s The Art of Fiction about the theory of the “fictional dream”—a notion that the writer makes us “see” the story by giving us images that appeal to all our senses, eliciting emotion. I thought of this as I watched President Obama’s electrifying speech delivered this past Saturday in Selma Alabama on… Continue reading President Obama: “What could more American than this?” [Bloody Sunday]
Spring and 50 Years After Bloody Sunday
Spring is my favorite time of the year (granted I say this when fall colors burst, and again when winter brings sleep and I can see the garden’s skeleton and of course in lush June when I turn another year older) but really…
Love knows…
Thanks to our daughter, Miranda, for sharing this with me this morning. Filled me up to overflowing. I’m so glad we can still count on the Ad Council to be powerful and innovative. Get yourself some Kleenex… http://youtu.be/Cen7NhfpMVE rethink bias at www.lovehasnolabels.com
Marching into Spring
Had meniscal knee surgery on Friday. So this is Day 3, March 1st and I started it by leaving my notes and reading and recliner to hobble out to the garden and gather flowers for this mandala. Thanks to my friend Judith in still wintery Brooklyn for the idea. Hope you all are finding beauty where… Continue reading Marching into Spring
Harlem Hopscotch ~ Music Video: Maya Angelo
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBHyKECPuA?rel=0&w=560&h=315] Harlem Hopscotch by Maya Angelou One foot down, then hop! It’s hot. Good things for the ones that’s got. Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down. Since you black, don’t stick around. Food is gone, the rent is due, Curse and cry and then… Continue reading Harlem Hopscotch ~ Music Video: Maya Angelo
Love Rocks
Original art by a.jones 2015 River rocks wrapped in handmade paper with photocopy print.
Valentine
From the sunny skies of Southern California, Family Weekend @ Pitzer College. My heart goes out to friends braving harsh weather ~