kiss that frog

There’s a fairy tale about a princess and a frog in the pond in the royal garden. The frog rescues the princess’s golden ball and tells her that if she will give him one kiss he will turn into a handsome prince. The drama comes from the fact that the princess doesn’t want to kiss a [...]

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a flower

May I step in peace upon the earth….I bow to you, a flower…..it’s a Sufi heart-opening meditation I learned this weekend, and the words keep reverberating inside. What does it mean to step in peace upon the earth? I have this sense of a kind of sacredness with every leaf, every stone, every tree. I [...]

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rachel alexandra

Rachel Alexandera has made me so happy. She’s a filly who just won the Preakness, the first filly to do so since 1924. Her jockey and trainer and owner say she’s a one in a million kind of gal. I just feel happy that she had the stamina and power to run with the colts, [...]

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may

Walking down the street in this hot evening, aware of Confederate jasmine in full bloom everywhere with its little alabaster five fingered petals and magnolias blossoming, dark green leaves, tight creamy blossoms that open to splendid plates of flowers, and gardenias, snow white many layered, all their heavy southern perfumes filling the air…..May where I [...]

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seed

How did this novel I’m working on come about? What sparked the creative urge to write it (other than insanity to think I could)? What was its seed? As a girl, I focused on English history, on the Tudors, because of their strong queens, and on the War of the Roses. When I was in [...]

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