Today, I posted a short story on my Medium.com site. I hope you take the time to read it. It is lengthy, about twice as long as my usual posts. However, I want some feedback on this story. The tough part of submitting to publications is that very often don’t give you any kind of…
I wrote my blog on Medium today. You can view it, here. Thanks for your support this month, as I have written on two platforms, Medium and WordPress. I am spending some time experimenting with my writing and I hope to produce some pieces that are engaging and entertaining, as well as informative. Please stick…
Yesterday, I wrote a post about what’s on my desk. Here is the link for that post: https://carollabuzzetta.medium.com/is-there-anything-good-on-my-writing-desk-eb60c9dff76d The day before I wrote about the fungi I saw on a walk on the Timm’s Hill Trail that runs near our cabin. It was a 3-mile total hike. Here is the link for that: https://carollabuzzetta.medium.com/fungi-seen-on-wisconsin-hikes-the-common-and-the-weird-721094248295 On…
Earlier this week, I promised I’d write about some recent milestones. Today, I am writing my 1800th post on my WordPress blog, The Apples in My Orchard! Eighteen hundred posts! Wow! Since I’ve been writing daily since the end of February 2017, it’s been almost five and a half years of posting. It’s not quite…
I’ve been trying to keep up on my reading since we moved. I’m on my third novel for the month and enjoy sitting on the deck facing the lake reading a few pages during the day, as well as at night before bed. The first two books I read were borrowed from the local library….
We paused our unpacking last week to go visit my parents in New York. I’ve written about them before. Both are in their mid-80s, both are still living together in their own home which is convenient but much, much too big, and both experiencing serious health issues in the last few years. They seem to…
I like to collect authors. These are people who write books with characters who stay with me, a storyline that engrosses me or offers such insight into history that I learn from the facts woven into the story. For me, these authors are people like E.B.White, Madeline d”Engle, Roald Dahl, and Mary Doria Russell, as…
When I started cleaning out our closets for our pending move, I began a trip down memory lane. We spent twenty years in one school district! For 13 of those years, I had one of our sons in elementary school due to their spacing. Elementary school was without a doubt my favorite time of schooling…
Somedays when I am short on time, I write quick verses on my iPhone. I jot them down on my notes app on the home screen. On days like today when busyness invades my life, I revert to them for both inspirations and to use as posts. We are hosting a garage/moving sale this weekend….
As I sit here writing, I wonder, is it wrong to want to shrink into my written word, to pretend the world is okay when it is not? The thing is, I don’t live on fantasies. I am a realist. I don’t know how long I can pretend the world is safe when it is…