You have to be a little scared when your best friend gives you a pocket notebook for your musings. One: because notes and musings are best written on recyclable envelopes so that no one close to you has any idea that you are serious – or pretentious enough to have the offending supply. Two: You […]
Books & More: Reviews & Comment
Books & More: Reviews & Comment. Reviews of Sheila Roberts’ Love in Bloom and Tina Folsom’s Samson’s Lovely Mortal. More to come.
Pruning Pomegranate
Some soils are so rich with nutrients that pomegranates can grow to wild proportions. And yet, they bear no fruit. A good gardener will know when and where to prune. At the height of the growing season, pruning can kill the plant. So much of its energy is invested in stem elongation, leaf production, root […]
Nurturing Pomegranate
In any other habitat, persistance and fertility are encouraged, not so in the cultivated garden.
Growing Pomegranate
Not all that grows needs to be kept
Show ‘n Tell
Telling isn’t believing
The Dump Revisited
Discarding the accumulations of the past, poisoning the future
Reflected Glory II
Basking in the bright shinyness of secondhand success.
Resurfacing
Writers are always under attack, no matter what they write, but romance writers and their readers are scorned, ridiculed and pilloried.
Surfacing
Polishing, rewriting, revisions – the payback for hard work