Category Archives: the writing life

Update on Chickens and Posts

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Lynne • 2 Comments

I think everyone is due an update on my friend Diana’s urban chickens, aka the world’s easiest research. My blog post of May 13 introduced the chicks (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) when Diana was beginning to wonder if Amy might be, oops, really an Amos. Recall that hens are perfectly welcome within city limits. … Continue Reading

From The Mailbox

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

Last week a note from a Massachusetts reader appeared in my inbox regarding my book, Where The Trail Grows Faint. The book, published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press, is creative non-fiction about working with my chocolate Labrador retriever, Hannah, in a nursing home. It weaves three story strands into a braid: Hannah and… Continue Reading

Reaching for The Optimal Experience

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Lynne • 3 Comments

I know the jokes about writers. We work in our pajamas, for one. We’re obviously at home too, so we ought to be able get the laundry done while we work. And since our time is our own, it’s only logical that we can run the dog to the vet, clean up the dishes, remember those birthday… Continue Reading

The Mystery of Metaphor

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

“To a poet nothing can be lost.” Samuel Johnson Something happened a few days ago that got me thinking about depicting emotion when I write, and how often I find my way to it through metaphor. Winter had reasserted itself, so Hannah’s forest hike was on icy sloggy mud that sucked at boots and… Continue Reading

On Clarity

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Lynne • 3 Comments

On Sunday it was fifty-four degrees, the air edgeless, soft and pale yellow. A young fisherman in a navy sweatshirt and baseball cap was on the edge of the river where Hannah swims; he took his simple hook and line upstream a bit when Hannah leapt from the bank to retrieve a stick my husband… Continue Reading

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Category Archives: the writing life

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