The Day After and the Year Ahead
New Year’s Day has passed and 2025 stretches bright and unblemished before us, like a sheet of unmarked snow. What will we do with this … Read more
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Making a New Year Different Than the Old One
This year we burned the Christmas tree on New Year’s Eve – a fitting end to the year. What’s on the books for 2024? More writing and reading and getting outside.
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas everyone!
A Break for the Holidays
We all need a break sometimes, and the holidays are the perfect time for rest, relaxation, and recalibration.
Monday Quote: Esi Edugyan
Today’s quote is from Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, for which she won her second Giller Prize this year.
Not Ready for the New Year
I have to confess, I’m not ready for the New Year. I feel as though I’m still stuck in the dying days of 2017, trying … Read more
Turning the Calendar to a New Year
Today we went for a walk along the estuary, the sun bright on an atypically frosty west coast day. The air was redolent with the … Read more
Out with the old, in with the new
*Updated Jan 9 with info from CSP. Now is the time when everyone posts their ‘best of 2015’ lists, so I thought I’d join in … Read more
