Tag: summer

• The tomato vine…the Maltese Falcon…the process…

  A check-in is long overdue! Summer, recently filled with eerie orange skies and hot nights, devastating California fires and Texas floods, a personal call to action and unanticipated foray into gardening, lots of exercising and even more revising, is (thank goodness!) almost over. But before the bluebird flies and my favorite season arrives, what news…

  Shelley

  September 4, 2017

  Inspiration, News

  california, creativity, dashiell hammett, don herron, husband, Inspiration, julia cameron, maltese falcon, music, my desk, photography, sam spade, san francisco, summer, tomato vine, walking tour, writer, writers life, writing process

• And what a leap it was!…

  …all the way from the New Year to mid-summer! How did that happen…? Well, I can only describe the first few months in my new position at the college as truly grabbing hold of a moving train and hanging on for dear life. But hang on I did, and manage to scramble aboard and squeeze…

  Shelley

  July 13, 2017

  Beginnings, Reflections, writer

  copperfield, family, feline, houdini, Inspiration, leap, loss, love, magicians, manuscript, new year, oscar, oxford, reality, revision, submission, summer, writers life