Sleep no more

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“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”

“I hate 2020”

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To survive, we must learn to be sustainable while not taking this grand planet and its self-sustaining but sensitive ecosystem for granted.

This thing that makes me happy

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Love’s Garden in the time of Corona These are tough times. We feel trapped. We feel alone. We miss the people we took for granted. We miss things we took for granted. We look back on our hopes and dreams. We wonder. We choose. We reflect. And maybe we read. Love’s Garden, is now available for pre-order from Aubade Publishing at https://aubadepublishing.com/books/loves-garden

Love’s Garden, or, the secret I kept for fifteen years

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If you have responses to the current cover design of Love’s Garden I’d LOVE to hear from you. The current image is not final, and if you would like to suggest changes I would be more than delighted. Thanks, all! You can comment directly at the link on this post.

Heartbreak Bay; Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir Wild Game

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You learn about the narrator and you cluck-cluck at her adolescent mistakes of judgment (if that’s what they are, as in they were generated by her fervent love for her complicated and beautiful mother); you grow up with her and her inner anguish; you break away with relief and happiness for her.