Yesterday, the Ozarks Electric building in Fayetteville was, once again, the scene of the NW Arkansas Writers’ Workshop. Published writers, wannabe writers, vocal writers, shy writers, all ages and genres gathered as we do each year. Admittedly, I stayed only for the morning session. Dusty Richards, who has published his 150th book is an accomplished […]
Mar 15, 2016
“Beware the Ides of March”
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To Julius Ceasar, the Ides of March was not such a wonderful day. To the rest of us, it is only the day that falls in the middle of the month, a short distance from the official start of spring. Here in NW Arkansas, the Ides of March is beautiful, clear-skied and sunny. Trees are putting out new leaves. […]
Dec 29, 2015
My Bag of Tricks
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I want to thank my subscriber who asked what was in my writer’s bag of tricks. I wasn’t sure, myself, what was in there, so I took a look. Mostly what I found was a very active, often obstreperous imagination, but also, in that bag was the small phrase, “What if?” A current event, a past […]
Aug 18, 2015
A Harvest of Years
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Yesterday was one of those rare, golden days, a day when I reaped the bounty of years gone by. Dad planted some grape vines a long time ago; I don’t even remember how many years ago. Yesterday, I gathered what he had painstakingly planted. His great-grandchildren will be beneficiaries of those lovely grapes made into jelly. That’s, let […]
Jul 24, 2015
The View From My Front Porch
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This is not my front porch. It is a front porch. But the view is not too different from mine. I like front porches. They aren’t as popular as they once were. Maybe it’s because we have so little time to come and sit a spell, talk things over with friends, or just simply stop and look at […]
Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Morning All Around
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It’s a lovely, quiet Sunday morning in NW Arkansas. The sun highlights freshly washed greens in leaves and grass. I like trees and woodsy areas. That’s probably why Darcy Campbell and Flora Tucker live in a heavily forested part of NE Oklahoma called Levi. It’s in Ventris County. Darcy and Flora are basically country people although Darcy […]
