The Tangled Path

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Writing a book isn't a marathon
unless there is some marathon that lasts between three weeks and thirty years
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Wild night with frogs
In which I spend some quality time with my dad
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Read-Aloud: The river of time
In which the Tangled Path goes audio!
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April 2023
The mother's mantle
adventures in Ireland, cont.
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Apparitions and legendary queens
on the 26th anniversary of my first trip to Ireland
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Busy being alive
notes on spring in the north, cont.
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April in the North
Spring comes slyly to the north. Red-winged blackbirds arrive on the cusp of a thick, wet snow. The eagles huddle in their nest as the winds gather and…
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March 2023
The edge of the wild
It’s 35 degrees, and I’m drenched in sweat in a bog. I stopped to take off my neck gaiter, and my parents glide along ahead of me, their backcountry…
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Fiction Share: Of rivers
an excerpt from a historical novel
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Open hearts and open minds
Imagining community for the spiritual but not religious
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Fiction Share: Novel Excerpt
"Of the things placed therein"
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The reincarnation of ideas
Nothing creative ever really dies; mourning creative projects
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