Last year, as part of the Sierra Club team, I took part in my very first Environmental Lobby Day in Springfield, Illinois. The purpose of the event was to discuss priority environmental legislation with state representatives and senators. It was … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2018
There are few museums where I can boast to be a Charter Member – with a membership card dating back to its origins in 2004. This is really a very young museum. Few can be younger, in fact. And it’s … Continue reading
Join Thor and me as we ramble around the less-ancient attractions surrounding the fabulous sanctuary of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysos at Delphi, Greece. NOTE: Since my 4-month backpacking trip around Greece too many years ago, I had been longing to … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Libraries as we think of them nowadays are a modern concept. The word summons to mind a collection of thousands if not millions of books, well-organized according to a categorization … Continue reading
I was meant for the Internet age. I was sorting through the books cluttering the table next to my reading chair one recent morning and noted their diversity: The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor, Beth Plutchak’s … Continue reading
Yes, it’s true. I squeed a while back that have sold my first ever mystery / crime novel to Pegasus Books—or rather my amazing and inestimable agent has accomplished this feat. So, I have now stopped pinching myself and am … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough So, you’ve written a novel. And it’s perfect. Gemlike. Every beta reader says it’s dynamite. The editor you hired urges you to submit it; your fellow workshoppers ran out of suggestions and have taken to bringing … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Oh, you’ve heard of ‘Calamity’ Jane Austin. She was a native of Texas, a noted women’s author in the early 19th Century. She even has a web page, summarizing her corpus of novels. Surely you have … Continue reading
Spring is springing and my backyard is an overgrown jungle. Every year I can’t wait to start gardening. But here’s the issue. I always have good intentions, I always start strongly, and then . . . I peter out. Last … Continue reading
Anywhere you go in the world, there are birds: small, large, drab, gaudy. Noisy or silent, they are hunters of both seed and flesh. They owe their feathers and guile to the dinosaurs. Birds of Kruger National Park in South … Continue reading