September 28, 2019
Fairmont Grand Del Mar
San Diego, CA
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But we are proud to say that Susan Smith Daniels contributed 15 entries already.
Fairmont Grand Del Mar
San Diego, CA
Warwick’s Bookstore
La Jolla, CA
It’s been a long winter in Iowa. Spring arrived for a couple of days and then disappeared, leaving us cold and peevish, reaching for hats and scarves and puffy coats grossly overdue for cleaning. Things in my garden poked up and stalled, like the peonies behind the grumpy angel. There have been many inaccurate predictions, […]
M and M Bookstore Reading
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Rancho Santa Fe Library Reading
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. -Aphra Behn, 17th Century poet, playwright and novelist. This is a picture from December with my book club of thirty some years (with the addition of a visiting club). It was also my first […]
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Iowa City, Iowa
Book Signing Revelations Cafe
Fairfield, Iowa
“After we had the pond filled in, I built this wall to separate that spot from the garden.. I found the cherub at a yard sale. It reminded me of him.” As the year works its way to a close, our house is littered with the trappings of Christmas just past: empty boxes, bits of […]
Winter whipped itself into the state last week, from 44 to 18 overnight with wind to drag the feel of it to nearly zero. Despite thirty-seven years of Iowa living, it never fails to surprise me. I can prepare, I can wear the appropriate clothing, but I can’t anticipate the shock of the first cold […]
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
–Flannery O’Connor