This week brought fall freshness to my life. The breeze at night has been cool and comforting. But before bed, we shut the windows as it’s been as cool as 49 degrees by morning! So far, my plants are withstanding the change in seasons. Many of you have followed my mushroom posts about my Dad…
I’m working on my guidelines for submissions to the anthology project – Nature Poetry In Pictures. While this is not the “official” title it conveys what I am looking for. The guidelines will be posted late next Friday. Submissions are to start soon after. The work will focus on ekphrastic poetry. If you are not…
Today is June 1st! Time seems to be flying! Last month, I ran a contest to get some of the readers who bought my poetry chapbook, Life’s Inspiration and Reflection in a Few Words (2022), to write an Amazon review for the book. If you don’t know, book reviews greatly enhance the saleability of a…
March has been a great month for my articles on Medium.com. After a very slow February where I barely made the partnership fee of $5.00 from my revenue, March ended up being very different – so far bringing in six times that amount – my highest income ever off the site. What was the difference…
Once a week I’ll try to catch up with my WordPress blog followers on the posts I’ve made on my Medium.com page. I’ve still not decided about the platform and if it is worth my time, I am gaining a larger readership but the bucks aren’t rolling in. I did earn slightly more in September…
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…
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…
I am a Jill of all trades some might say. My hobbies are many and have been for a long time. Ever since I decided to be a stay-at-home mom when we moved to the midwest in 1999, leaving my advanced practice nursing career behind, I filled my spare time with hobbies. My small handmade…
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 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…