Solace in a Book

September break, summer photos

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Happy September! Labor Day weekend is here and summer is over.  Hope you have fun in store for you this holiday. My writing groups are resuming and I have manuscripts due. Summer has provided me with lots of time to play and socialize but I haven't been very diligent. So, I am taking a few weeks off--a staybbatical, so to speak. I'll be back September 23.  In the meantime, I am glad to report my rejection streak has come to an end, with an acceptance yesterday (more … [Read more...]

Guest Post: Laura Rodley “Gateway”

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Gateway Gateway to heaven, Cecropia flits to my doorway, flaps her wings, Morse code from God, life everlasting, she lays her full body against my brass doorknob. Her journey is done, her wings are tattered, she will lay her eggs and disappear. Like all faith, she is ephemeral and falls down from the skies. How did she find me? How did she know I was seeking solace? And she brought a disciple, another Cecropia, much smaller, that lay beside the lit porch … [Read more...]

Solace in So Many Words — new review and TV too

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There’s some news about Solace in So Many Words. First, we got a new review on Goodreads. To celebrate its fifth year Weighed Words hosted a giveaway of Solace In So Many Words and sent five copies away to readers across the country. I always hope that such a giveaway will generate a little buzz and this time it did. A reader named Erin Hill received a copy, and in her review of Solace in So Many Words she writes: “I really enjoyed this collection. It's varied in the … [Read more...]

August days: My grandmother was a poet

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I haven’t been posting a lot but I have been thinking about life events and the end of life. I got a little crabby the other day. Is it the weather? Midsummer blues? Aging? Just impatience and frustration on my part? That’s what has been on my mind lately. One of my siblings is moving and came across these printed cards. They are poems written by my grandmother Bertha L. Wade. She lived to be well into her nineties. Almost all her children (including my father) … [Read more...]