I miss you, Billy.

How Long Will I Love You

For Billy

Come to Me




 

October

On Writing

 

 

 

Follow Your Bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

~ Joseph Campbell ~

On Writing



I am always thinking in the back of my mind, there’s something always going on back there. I am always working, even if it’s sort of unconsciously, even though I’m carrying on conversations with people and doing other things, somewhere in the back of my mind I’m writing, mulling over. And another part of my mind is reviewing what I’ve done.  ~ T. S. Eliot ~ 

A Writer

 

 

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which

to work will die without putting a word on paper.

 

~ E. B. White ~

 

 

Belong to the World.

You never intended to be in this world.

But you’re in it all the same.

So why not get started immediately.

I mean, belonging to it.

There is so much to admire, to weep over.

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

Dogs

 



Dudley





Dogs are such agreeable friends;

they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

For Kamryn

Kamryn
 Photo:  Grammy

 I Hope You Dance.

On Writing

Tennessee Williams

I asked Tennessee for advice on writing. He said keep everything very simple and straightforward; be honest to yourself. Although he didn't speak very much, Tennessee noticed everything and felt everything. I think that's what I learned from him: how to be an observer.

~ Michael Garady ~

Shoot them now, while they're happy.

 

If you have any young friends

who aspire to become writers,

the second greatest favor you can do

them is to present them with copies

of The Elements of Style.

  The first greatest, of course,

 is to shoot them now,

while they’re happy. 

 

~ Dorothy Parker ~

 

Paducah In The Fall

(Photo:  Paducah Life Magazine)

Reprinted from LA Times Travel:

Paducah, Kentucky: About 175 miles southeast of St. Louis is the enclave of Paducah, founded in 1827 by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark). Paducah's proximity to the Ohio and Tennessee rivers makes it an ideal place for leaf peeping. The best drives in this area are along U.S. 60/62 which leads directly out of town, then intersects with U.S. 68. A country road of rising and falling farmlands punctuated by forest leads to the Land Between the Lakes, a national recreation area. Another gorgeous drive, the 43-mile Woodlands Trace Scenic Byway, is a ridge of land between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. The surrounding forest provides 3,000-plus miles of leaf-filled hiking.

Happy Birthday, Kentucky!

Kentucky turns 222 years old tomorrow.

Some Gave All

A Book

A book must be an ax for the frozen sea inside us.

~ Frank Kafka ~

I Love...

Kamryn

Kamryn modeling her Mini Mouse outfit.

On Writing

 

Don't write what you know;

write what you don't know about what you know.

~ Grace Paley ~

The Last Game

I spent a great deal of time with my maternal grandparents as I was growing up.  And since my great-grandfather lived with them for several years before his death, I spent a lot of time with him as well.

This picture of Libertus B. Elsey was probably taken around 1936 or 1937.  He was a very intelligent man and knew a lot about a lot of things, but he could be snobbish and a little crochety at times.

I wrote a short story based on the waning days of Paw Paw Elsey's life.  Some of the story is true, but most is speculative, so it is a work of fiction.                 

"The Last Game" is in the current issue of The Tower Journal.  This link will take you to the index.  Under fiction, scroll down and click on my name.