A Perpetual Journey, 2 Lately I’ve been rereading works by authors of the American West. One particularly intriguing author is ...

Venetian painter Pino Zennaro's spirit works in conjunction with his hand. Through exquisite detail, his paintings invite us to explore ...

Question: What do Logan, Utah; Santiago, Chile; and international sports competition have in common? Answer: Sixteen-year-old Logan swimmer, Tori Geller ...

I usually think of travel as getting in the car or boarding a plane and going away from home. Recently, ...

Mid-August was the height of the Perseid meteor showers. The showers happen when the planet Earth is crossing the orbital ...

How it happened COVID19 came on fast. Steve and I were packing for the trip back to the United States ...

One Writer’s Daily Schedule for Living in Isolation In the last posting, I wrote about being stranded in Tel Aviv ...

In the last blog I wrote about making my bed. Why did I want to write about these homely details ...

We’ve been in isolation for three weeks. We had just come back from a trip to the north when the ...

A little over a month in isolation. We’re sticking to our schedule of making the bed, exercising, working, fixing meals ...

For a writer, it seems isolation/quarantine should be an ideal situation to write for hours every day, day in day ...

Another exercise session with Lucy Wyndham Read. She has dozens of exercise tapes on YouTube. The tapes range from 3 ...

As COVID 19 drives us further into isolation, I rely more and more on books, movies, and walks along the ...

We started the first step of Aliyah, the trip to the airport from Logan, on 25th December 2016. During the ...

I had planned to post blogs according to the chronology of our move here, but I need to interrupt myself ...

At the airport in Newark, while we waited to board the plane for Israel, I understood that it would be ...

The reality for me, an immigrant, is that whatever sophistication of language I have in English will manifest itself only ...

I’ve been thinking about what different people we become when we speak different languages. How does character manifest differently say, ...

Hope you’ll all visit Fiction Southeast to see my recent publication titled On the Boardwalk - Two Memoirs. This short fiction is the ...

Before I started writing books, I believed a person simply sat at their desk, wrote a book, sent it to ...

Hope you’ll all visit Fiction Southeast to see my recent publication titled On the Boardwalk - Two Memoirs. This short fiction is the ...

Before I started writing books, I believed a person simply sat at their desk, wrote a book, sent it to ...

Photos from my recent nine-mile walk to a neighboring village and back. These Etruscan trails are the same as those ...

I’m on the verge of a long trip and now that my luggage is nearly packed, I’ve been looking for ...

Each time I come back from traveling, I need a few weeks to make the transition. I don’t mean I ...

When I finally overcame jet lag, my husband and I went to see the movie "Philomena". A journalist, Martin, and ...

I have seven things to tell about Israel this time, and I can personally recommend them all. (I've been very ...

Lately I've been thinking about another volunteer, a man I met formerly during a Sar-el program and with whom I ...

It's soon the beginning of the second week of volunteering in Israel. The group of volunteers of which I am ...

Traveling Again A busy week. Hanukkah begins Wednesday night; Thanksgiving is on Thursday, and then only a weekend before I ...

In part 46 of Song of Myself, Walt Whitman wrote “I tramp a perpetual journey.” I’ve borrowed part of Whitman’s ...

“Why mysteries?” Someone asked me. I didn’t have a ready answer. I never planned to write them. I’ve mostly written ...

Last blog, I wrote about why I write mysteries: the puzzle aspect; the chance to deal withdeath, which is the ...

A friend just suggested that I and some other friends think about our “writing life,” so I’ve been thinking about ...

To animate work on a book, I gather ideas from three sources: scholarly / public records; interviews; and notes from ...

Just before I woke this morning I had a dream. I was standing at a doorway. The door opened and ...

Since I’ve signed on with Level Best Books I’ve been in contact with other LBB authors who set their books ...

Given the recent snows and thinking of friends and family living in currently sub-zero weather, I’m posting a short essay ...

"If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name" Kendrick Lamar Today I picked up my ...

Last week I wrote about choosing names for my characters. What happened in namingthe characters surprised and delighted me. As ...

In late April, I wrote about our elm tree, a full-grown, broad-canopied tree, which before it became diseased had been ...