Adrienne von Speyr on the Feast of the Assumption
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Reflections
The Hungry Mother: Kate Atkinson and Baba Yaga
I had one of those remarkable encounters while reading Kate Atkinson's Case Histories, who was describing in almost identical words an idea I had explored years ago in a poem. It is an ambiguous moment in motherhood, knitting power and love in a fierce and consuming way. It's awful really, selfish as it expresses a desire
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Being Good At Problem Solving is a Problem
Mostly because its not my problems that I am solving. I seem to have spent the last five days putting out fires, rebuilding lost websites, reputations, getting other people’s work done, and completely ignoring my own. How does that happen? I am too much of a competent fixer of problems not my own. And as happy
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What Is It About a Scythe?
Sometimes a photograph or a work of art inspires a character in my work — sometimes I am looking specifically for them, (I have notebooks filled with images for almost every character I have ever written) and sometimes, they simply appear and demand to be included. This guy did just that — muscled his way
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