Hey there. It’s already the fifteenth of February and I haven’t checked in with you yet this month. That’s because I have nothing new to report about me. But here’s what’s happening with some people we know. Big congrats to Patty Somlo for Hairway to Heaven, her latest book. It is available from Cherry Castle Publishing. Here's how it's described: "The interconnected stories featured in this book specifically, boldly, and tenderly are rooted in her experiences living in … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Hope your holiday is wonderful. Thanks for reading this blog. I have much to be grateful for and I hope you do too. Today's photo comes from Laura Rodley who explains: “The photo I took while driving home and all of a sudden the clouds were setting on top of the cornfield like a Shangri-la and I had to stop and enter their green vibrating world.” Thank-you, Laura. Let us hope we can all find our own version of Shangri-la. Laura Rodley, is a … [Read more...]
New winner, new books
Hello there. Hope you have a bowlful of your favorite candy ready for the trick-and-treaters, and that you have plenty of leftovers, which you can then eat yourself when Halloween is over. Sugar high for everyone! Woo-hoo. Big congrats are in order. Solace in So Many Words contributor Joan Corwin is the winner of the 2017 Tom Howard/ John H. Reid Fiction Prize for her story “Length of Days.” You can read it here. Two members of my writing group (The Writers) have new … [Read more...]
Laura Rodley “Finally Home”
Finally Home She hangs straight down feelers embedded in the comfrey’s pale purple cup sipping on summer nectar as through returning to the cocoon from which she emerged at early fall’s late dawn, wings flat as though still drying, perfect in symmetry and comfort to the eye. There too, her partner in nectar, the hummingbird dips her long tongue into comfrey’s bells, silent clappers, and into the mouth of jewelweed, nature’s own uncultured orchid, orange, … [Read more...]
Old song, old poem: new solace
Hey all. Can July speed by any faster? Here’s what I got for you. Check out Kathleen Kirk’s review of Dave Bonta’s book of poems called Ice Mountain on Escape Into Life. I bet you’ll want to read more of Dave Bonta’s work and the archive of Escape into Life. As you know, Kathleen Kirk is a SISMW contributor. Way back in October 2012 Dave Bonta’s poem “Ode to Scythes” was published here. Creativity is curative. Read Mark Brown’s "Arts can help recovery from illness and … [Read more...]
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