Dishes (an excerpt) by Myfanwy Collins We did the dishes rarely—once or twice a week. Mostly they were red tinged wineglasses or heavy blue glasses with crusty milk rims piled up easily and out of sight in the deep soapstone sink. I would lift them one by one and place them on the wooden countertop. Sometimes there would be mold and sometimes not. It … Read More

Calling All Senators!

A powerful and important message from Jesse Jackson: Senators Should Object to Ohio Vote To call all Senators toll free: 1-800-839-5276 or 1-877-762-8762.

wow. read this: Constellation, by Joe Young and this: Bobby, by Kathy Fish

Ellen Meister’s publishing deal formally announced!

Ellen Meister‘s debut novel, GEORGE CLOONEY AND OTHER SECRET LONGINGS OF THE APPLEWOOD PTA, a frank suburban comedy about three PTA women who are transformed when Hollywood announces plans to shoot a movie in their town, to Carrie Feron at Morrow/Avon, for publication in early 2006, by Andrea Cirillo and Annelise Robey at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. Read more about the fabulous Ellen Meister … Read More Ellen Meister’s publishing deal formally announced!

Runaway, by Alice Munro

Alice Munro’s Runaway is a rich and compelling collection. It took me longer to finish this book than I thought it would but I felt I had to stop after each story, absorb it, let it live within me for a few hours before I could go on to the next. It is a remarkable book. Three of the stories (three interconnected stories–“Chance”, “Soon” … Read More Runaway, by Alice Munro

poem for 1/5/05 Blue by May Swenson

the raw story is reporting what the Ohio Secretary of State (a Republican), “in apparent disregard for his non-partisan role as Ohio’s chief election official” said, in his own fundraising letter, in regards to the election. Read all about it.

Writing Down the Bones by Jordan E. Rosenfeld is a thought-provoking look at a government-sponsored war anthology written by veterans of recent wars.

Absolution (an excerpt) by Myfanwy Collins My ex-wife Shasta found the tail of a squirrel underneath the tree in front of her duplex this morning. She wouldn’t last the month and she told me so as she sat on the couch, weeping, her hair in little tufts on her scalp. All I could think of was getting to the airport and having a double … Read More

Watched Land of the Falling Lakes last night and have added yet another place to my list of places I must visit. Plitvice Lakes National Park is located in Croatia’s Dinaric Mountains and is the oldest National Park in Europe. And if you see this show (or click on the link above and look at some of the photos), you will see that it … Read More

Rise in Grizzly Bear Deaths To me, this is a big story, an important story, a scary story. If the Grizzly Bear is no longer protected in Yellowstone, then he loses one of his last safe havens. And if he loses one of his last safe havens, we are just that one step closer to wiping grizzlies out on the lower 48. When that … Read More

&nbspThere Days in New York City is new fiction from &nbspRobin Slick. Here is part of the publisher’s blurb: &nbsp&nbsp&nbspWhat happens when a frustrated American &nbsp&nbspartist-turned-soccer-mom and her &nbsp&nbspoverconfident and charming British cyber-lover &nbsp&nbspplan a three-day tryst of erotic depravity at a &nbsp&nbsphotel in New York City? Elizabeth and Richard are about to find out. And here’s a bit from Chapter One: I can’t … Read More