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Where were you four years ago? COVID in the rearview (and the writing)

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Four years ago this month, our nation shut down with the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thinking back on those days still elicits painful memories of confusion, disruption, and terrible loss. We each have unique stories of how COVID impacted our lives. The first half of 2020 irreversibly…
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Writing Daughter of a Promise, a Biblical Retelling

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This essay was originally published on Women Writers, Women's Books. Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When…
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Slowing it Down: Talking Snow, Story, and Swirling Change

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Greetings from Park City where the world outside my window swirls with snow and the world inside my head swirls with story—from all that I saw at The Sundance Film Festival, as well as daily reading and writing. This includes re-reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Middlemarch by…
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New Year, New Writing Updates!

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Happy New Year! If you're a long-time reader or you've subscribed to my newsletter in the past, you may have noticed I’ve migrated my essays and letters to Substack. Introducing... I hope to share writing monthly, and I hope you'll come along with me on the journey. If…
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Wouldn’t We All Love a Master Plan?

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People ask what happens on the farm during the winter. The answer is a lot.: planning, budgeting, and purchasing new equipment.  Since Flynn Creek Farm is still so new to us, our planning is on two levels.  The first is for the short term – what are we going to do next season? …
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By Jeanne|
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The Dis-ease

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Many years back my doctor prescribed genetic screening because of a history of cancer in my family.  A finding that had been inconclusive seven years ago was now raising some concern and so I recently returned to Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston to have blood drawn for an additional…
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