Searching out meaning; significance, value, purpose. Sailing the Shallop on Plymouth Bay. WoodenBoat Show, Mystic Seaport, June 2013. Background image, a detail of a view of Provincetown Harbor from Macmillan Wharf.

The Island, a Short Story. Introducing November, a mystery. Writing Embodiment, When the point is not escape. A conversation on Fiction, or a fictional conversation. Writing, a journey into sound. A few thoughts on plot. A New Hub for My Fiction. The Island, a Short Story.

Materials are for research, educational and individual use;. Nothing Like Us Ever Was. On the Shore Dimly Seen. Four Trees Down from Ponte Sisto. Leave It or Double It. Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered. Shake, Rattle, Roll. The Bottom of the Mind.

There have been times when it has seemed appropriate to appeal to the metaphor of a snake shedding its skin. This last year brings to mind a different serpentine behavior, stupor induced by the effort to digest an enormous meal. An Anaconda at these times can be mistaken for a fallen tree trunk.

Nature writing for the ecological crisis. Inside the house, the cat lounged on her shelf above the radiator, stretching out to catch as much of the rising heat as she could, looking lazily out of the window, only the tip of her tail aroused at the sight of a bird. But Elizabeth was more alert, Look at that big black bird, she said. Tags Nature Writing; Crow; Winter. The New Citizenship Project Blog.

Ecological writing between ocean and land. Coral at anchor in Derrynane Harbour. Is an account of this first voyage from the south coast of England, across the Celtic Sea to Ireland, round the Blasket Islands and Skellig Rocks and back home. Is published in 2014 by Vala Publishing Cooperative www.