Let me say up front that Facebook is very useful in our small real-world community as it serves as a major way to communicate events and even sell (or give away) items. But having said that, I …
And The Retirement Adventure Begins
It's a cold, rainy, windy day out across the island today, but it's just the kind of day for huddling indoors and doing some preliminary planning for next year. I've written before about …
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My Experiment To Help Folks Garden Better Next Year
To begin, let me make several observations about my writer's retirement and the experiment I'm about to launch. Didn't I Just Retire? I'm feeling great about my garden-writing retirement, as I …
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I Never Thought I’d Write This Post
There's nothing quite like a pandemic to focus your attention on the important things in your life. And when I did the exercise of identifying the important things in my creative life (after …
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Trees and Writers Keep Growing Or Rot Inside
One of the hardest things a writer has to do is constantly outgrow their world. The hard reality is it is only by recognizing multiple paths forward in both craft and creativity and abandoning …
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Would I Do What I’m About To Do Today
It's particularly complicated when you've been a self-employed writer for thirty years. I won't even pretend to think consistently about retiring. There are now days when I look at the keyboard - …
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