Conversations and Candy (what more do we need?!)
I understand a website is supposed to be about Me, Me Me, but I would really like it to be about You, You You, too. If you have thoughts about writing, art, music, life, and can say them in fewer than 200 words, please submit by clicking on the button below. I will respond, and will send you a link to my short story, Bananas. The first five submissions I choose to put on this page will ALSO get a free signed-to-you copy of my novel, Dreaming the Marsh. I look forward to hearing from you.
Candy:
September 14, 2020 “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
Stephanie Hersh, the late Julia Child’s long-time assistant, explains Julia’s world-view.
August 11, 2020 “Physics is a magnetic topic for me because it sounds like nature speaking out.” – Doris Eder My sister-in-law, Doris, has recently become enchanted by books on various difficult subjects such as brain, mind, the cosmos, and physics. She is writing an essay about physics for a literary magazine. For more about this extraordinary 84-year-old woman see https://elizabethmccullochauthor.com/a-gift-from-doris/
July 16, 2020. I don’t know the original source of this; my friend Michelle Ott
posted it on Facebook. It reflects the lives of those who, like me, are retired
with sufficient income and no small children. Never have I better understood
my privilege and good fortune than during these distressing (on many fronts)
times. https://elizabethmccullochauthor.com/there-but-for-fortune/
June 14, 2020
I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so. – Adrienne Rich, My Native Land, My Life (back cover)
Jan 12, 2020
“At my back I always hear Time’s wing-ed chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell
Nov 5, 2019
“Novel-reading is a species of credencive* idolatry, for it is a powerful exercise of the brain, a pleasing titillation of the mind, and generally without any real use.” J. Stanley Grimes, Problems of Creation (1881) *[Disposed to give credence; ready to believe -OED]
Oct 2,2019
There’s a lady in the city
And she thinks she loves them all
There’s the one who’s thinking of her
There’s the one who sometimes calls
There’s the one who writes her letters
With his facts and figures scrawl
She has brought them to her senses
They have laughed inside her laughter
Now she rallies her defenses
For she fears that one will ask her
For eternity
And she’s so busy being free
Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree
Sept 16, 2019
“When I go to Paynes Prairie I exhale, as though I have been holding my breath for days.” – Me (the Marsh in Dreaming the Marsh is inspired by Paynes Prairie)
August 12, 2019
SONG AT MIDNIGHT
brothers,
this big woman
carries much sweetness
in the folds of her flesh.
her hair
is white with wonderful. she is rounder than the moon
and far more faithful.
brothers,
who will hold her,
who will find her beautiful
if you do not?
by Lucille Clifton – Blessing the Boats, New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
July 3, 2019
skinkle, v.[‘intransitive. To glitter, glisten; to sparkle, twinkle.’]
“Frae ilk buss, the tangles gay, Hang skinklin’ in the mornin’ ray.” E. Picken Misc. Poems 1813 (my source:OED Word of the Day)
May 11,2019
“As far as I’m concerned, character is everything. I never did see why I have to throw in a plot, too.” Anne Tyler