Writer Talk - Carson McCullers

"I live with the people I create

and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."

1958

Author Goldberry Long

Sitting in Starbucks, working and grooving to the catchy ever present tunes.

I just met Goldberry Long, author of Juniper Tree Burning. She's a lovely person, glowing with energy and intent on her writing. We chat about growing up eighties and wearing designer jeans.

I leave her alone and turn to my own work as I can tell that she is trying to sink into writing mode. She has that slightly anxious air of the writer who needs to tune into her deeper self.

I wonder if I will run into her again. Will we become friends? I have a growing collection of books signed by their authors and an even more vibrant collection of friends who write.

I think I'll buy her book. It promises to be lyric and moving. Maybe she will sign it for me.

And If You Are a Writer...

You will arise from your office chair
Leave your computer
And cross the room to the
Dictionary with the fine, thin pages
And the tiny, dark print
To discover the correct past tense
Of “to hew”

Because it matters to you.

First Day!

Welcome to my new blog - devoted to all things reading, writing, poetic! Hope you'll find some inspiration and some tasty tidbits!