Something about this winter, with its warmer than average temperatures and its lack of snow, has me thinking about gardening earlier than usual. Maybe it’s because the raised garden beds in my back yard are not hidden from sight, which typically allows me to stop thinking about them for several months at a time. […]
Teresa Sundmark: Mushrooms, Mycelium and Writing Read More »
I sometimes have a hard time sitting down to write, but I’ve found a few tricks to help get me going. My first trick is taking notes. When I sit down to write I worry about sounding good for an audience. You know, the audience. The people who will read my words and judge whether
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I heard my Granddad tell the story four separate times. One evening when he was sixteen years old my Granddad, Clarence Acree, (nicknamed Sonny at the time) was at his Uncle Bill’s house in Sayre, Oklahoma. It was late in the day, well after supper, and they were sitting in the main room playing fiddle
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Teresa Sundmark A while back, a photographer friend of mine in Colorado posted a few photos he’d taken of an elk he’d come across while hiking. Two of the photos were beautifully composed. Stock-photography ready, you could say, with the sunlight at just the right angle and the elk holding its majestic head high for
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Last week, several “Resolve to Write” events were held around the State. The event held at the Homer Public Library had a particularly lively turnout. Use of blogs was one of many topics discussed, and here are three different takes on the evening from blog posts by writers who were present. Here is Erin Hollowell’s,
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