The writing retreat was meant to be an opportunity to work on my next novel: to write uninhibited and let the story flow; to get lost in words. But I arrived with one suitcase full of clothes, a fan, a few books, some snacks and a shit-load of feelings. When I opened up the laptop […]
For the love of sports… or… how I find time to write fiction.
Crisp, sunny autumn in New England, my favorite season, and not just because there are vibrant canopies over winding back roads. I adore everything about this time of year, including football, hunting, and hockey. If you truly know me, then you are scratching your head and wondering if I drank too much dandelion wine at […]
Aesop Lake
Source: Aesop Lake
How to be an Ally… Join the Conversation
Source: How to be an Ally… Join the Conversation
The Hungry Wolf & The Lamb: The First Fable in Aesop Lake
A wolf was drinking from a river when he happened to spy a lamb lapping up a little water downstream. “Oh yes,” said the wolf to himself. “There is my supper! All I need is a good excuse to get it. Then I will have both my food and my water!” “Hey there! Little Lamb! […]
The mock of an alpha
I’ve just spent a week home alone. My daughter and husband went to Minnesota for a week to visit my oldest daughter, see a hockey game and hang out with family. It was a win-win-win because I was given six quiet days with the house to myself… Well, almost to myself. Just me, the chinchilla […]
Beneath the blanket of anger.
She looked twenty years older than her true age. Was it because she had a difficult life? Because she was a mother of three young children? That’s what I thought when I first met her. I knocked on the screen door, with the rusty handle, and the woman who answered, “Marie”, pushed open the door […]
Walking in the cultural kitchen of friendship
“What do you miss most about Thailand?” I ask Lek as we drive home from campus one afternoon. The quiet moments in the long drive to my daughter’s high school keep me peppering our guest with questions of his homeland. We talk about similarities and differences between the schools in Vermont versus his school in […]
Sarah Ward 