Solace in a Book

News from Glimpse of Solace artists (Cleary, Coudal, Nance, Buckland) and a call for submissions

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April showers today; I love the rumble. Here are some updates about the artists whose work has been featured on Glimpse of Solace Daniel Cleary is going to have a show "In Exhibition: Daniel Cleary, new and selected paintings" starting tomorrow April 10  at the Uptown Arts Center, 941 W. Lawrence. Brendan Coudal continues to be inspired by his cats Max and Phoebe . But he also has a number of new projects. Check out all Brendan’s visual art at his website. One … [Read more...]

Guest Post: Laura Rodley “To Be a Horse”

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This essay by Massachusetts writer Laura Rodley gives us an image and rides with it.  Reading it makes me think of all the horses in literature and the horse books by Marguerite Henry. I love how Laura’s writing flows (it's why I fell for "Addicted" in Solace in So Many Words).  This lyric essay is timely to me too because it mentions a broken arm, and I am recovering from a broken arm (but not one as serious the  fracture mentioned here).     To Be a … [Read more...]

News and nifty

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"Keep your sunny side up, up!" ("Hide the side that gets blue"). I write this to myself as well as to you. No whining. I’ve been watching Foyle’s War on Netflix and really enjoying it. It very rarely hits the wrong note; I’ve watched two seasons and only had some quibbles with the series. It’s been making me think of the sacrifices made at that time (1940s), wondering whether modern society could soldier on so. Here’s news I know. First off, big congrats to Ellen Bass … [Read more...]

Guest Post: “One More Thing” by Lesléa Newman

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“One More Thing,” this wonderful poem by Lesléa Newman, seemed to me to segue very well from the last guest post, “Smoking” by Laura Rodley. On first reading this poem made me think of the past.  Subsequent readings made me think of the present.  I know it will make you think too. Thanks again to Lesléa Newman for letting me share her work here.   ONE MORE THING   My mother crept downstairs at night, (I made believe I was asleep) She didn’t … [Read more...]