thoughts, tales and travels
My novel set in colonial Delaware and Maryland involves learning on several levels: discovering my own Delaware roots through research, becoming more focused and consistent about writing, and slowly acquiring the skills of writing fiction, which I’ve never really tried before. I’m grateful for the insights of my weekly writing...
In our OLLI short story group this Thursday we are reading a less-known tale by the nineteenth century master Nathaniel Hawthorne. Maybe you had to read Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter in high school. “Wives of the Dead” was presumably written about 1829 when Hawthorne was twenty-five years old and had recently...
We’ve been watching a recent PBS called Expeditions Unknown which features some recent discoveries in the Guatemalan biosphere reserve. We visited the reserve along with many other Mayan sites on our tour in March 2016, although they were only beginning to talk about El Mirador then. It’s really exciting to see...
One of our oldest American ghost stories The short story discussion group at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Eugene is reading the story “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin (1778-1841) for discussion on Thursday, June 7th, 2018. “The time to which Rugg’s career dates back is that...
It was a beautiful day for the Prefontaine Classic at Historic Hayward Field, with cool breezes wafting through the sun-warmed air. We sat in the old East Grandstand for the last time last night. After this season, the whole track complex will be taken apart and redone. Before that happens,...