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Observe 2021
Although I embarked on my theme word selection in November, when I was planning and teaching the first of three sessions of “One Little Word” for Drawing Meditations, it took me until today to finally decide that this year’s word is OBSERVE. It’s the word I started with, but on reflection in the workshops my…
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Eye on Intruders
[This was written during a workshop on Memory, Identity and Magical Realism run by my talented sister, Jenny Hill, at ActsofJennius.com. I highly recommend exploring the offerings there. In this assignment we altered a photograph that had a specific memory associated, and then wrote about the altered version.] Eye On Intruders “Alert, Alert! Interlopers! Intruders!,”…
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Flourish 2020
It’s theme word time. This year, I feel like December has snuck up on me. We’re halfway through and I am not prepared to end my year with any forward looking anything. I can barely register what’s on today’s To Do list. Despite that, this tradition needs to continue. So for the past week, I’ve…
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Revisiting Anam Cara
Twelve years ago, Tod & I visited Anam Cara for a poetry workshop given by my sister, Jenny Hill, and Jack McGuigan. (My main memory of that trip is memorialised in this poem.) When I realised that we’d be in the area this year for the European Juggling Convention in Millstreet, of course we had…
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I am a Novelist
Book-length fiction completed.
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Handy phrases for vegetarians, near-vegetarians, and picky eaters in Japan
How to get what you want to eat.
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Kangaroos by Ogden Nash
The kangaroo can jump incredible. He has to jump, because he’s edible. I could not eat a kangaroo, But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo meringues. (Ogden Nash wrote this to be read along with Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of Animals – Kangaroos.)
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At the Library
Cultural spectrum
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A riddle
The answer is so true
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Better Life, Olive Crown
a poem
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