The Unnamed Narrator and Jane
Originally published July 2017 by Jill Zeller We’re talking about Rebecca and Jane Eyre. Two naïve young women come to live in huge, lavish English
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Place Names: An Observation of Culture
Originally published Fall, 2017 The husband and I begin conversations, as we often do, that travels down many highways, side roads and dirt paths. Last
A Ride on the Angel Bus
Originally published April, 2020. [Ironically, the serial I started back then lapsed—I wrote myself to a point where I got lost, and until I find
The Reluctant Traveller in Den Haag
(Originally published April 2017) Another trip to South Africa brought me back through Amsterdam. I discovered some common sense somewhere and decided to have a
The Reluctant Traveler: Mozambique
Originally published April, 2017 by Jill Zeller It is March, 2017. I am in Mozambique—Maputo, the capital city to be precise—at a fancy hotel on
If you love animals . . .
Originally published May, 2018 What do an environmental consultant, a wildlife scientist and a physicist have in common? They all have written books. And good
Synesthesia
(Originally posted oh, I don’t know–a while ago.) Letters have colors. A year is in the shape of an oval. A week starts out like
Author Interview: Jill Zeller
JILL ZELLER Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Jill Zeller was determined to become a writer ever since her fifth grade play was a flop
Yinzer Emeritus
I’ve been following the midterm elections with the fervor of someone seeing a traffic accident happening in real time. I can’t take my eyes away.
Kruger National Park Revisited
[As the title suggests, I am not able to actually revisit South Africa’s amazing Kruger National Park, but I am able to recall my two
A Book Review: 85 Years Too Late
I read Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind in my early 20’s—that is several decades ago. I’ve seen the movie more than a dozen times,
A Little Trip Away
My sister and I agree that there is something special about Death Valley, California. This specialness is not the weather, or the silence, but instead
A Rant from the Aged
More than the blinkering strangeness of the COVID pandemic loaded with fear and vituperation and the baffling denial by anti-vaxers and mask mandate resisters. More