The End

I recently published my first edited book,  Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology ,  with  Small Harbor Publishing . It's an anthology of writing from  Literary Mama  staff over the past 20 years. It's a beautiful collection and I am proud of the writers and proud to share the book.  It seems a fitting moment, as I pondered sharing about the book here on the blog, to reflect on my life as a blogger, and acknowledge that it is time to officially end this blog.   I started blogging in about 2007, when my baby was learning to toddle, when I was learning how to be a mother and stepmother, when I was just starting to see my way as a writer. I needed it back then. I craved it. I had a variety of blog iterations--family, art, creativity, writing things I delved into. There's a freedom in blogging, a casualness, an easy familiarity that's lacking (for me anyway) in other kinds of writing. I loved blogging and the words came pouring out.  Ove...
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Backyard Artist Date- December 2014

We've had snow and ice and rain and cold these final autumn days. Today there is melt and thaw, and so I wandered the field looking for signs of life. What I found were evergreens. Glorious, sturdy, vibrant evergreens. In the darkness and grey and dimly lit days, there is still green. And even the winter angle of the Earth cannot thwart it. Solstice is almost here.





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Andrea said…
Mmm, lovely. Thank goodness for evergreens, or this would be a gray time of year, indeed.
December 16, 2014 at 2:28 PM
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