(Golden Heart, 2016, watercolor on paper, 15 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches) If you go to the website for the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, then click “Exhibitions,” you will find that from October 26 through December 9 2017 there will be an exhibit of the small-format watercolors that Joseph Raffael has been painting for the […]
Martha L. Thompson’s book, Giving Paws: Having a Service Dog for a Hidden Disability, is a book about one woman’s discovery of her own soul as it comes, again and again, to a choice between struggle and surrender. There are a good many important things to write about Thompson’s book, and this review intends […]
From Amazon’s Patricia Allison Page: The first novel co-authored by Alison Daniels and Dean Robertson writing as Patricia Allison The second novel, by Alison Daniels, writing as Patricia Allison The third novel, by Dean Robertson writing as Patricia Allison The fourth novel by Alison Daniels writing as Patricia Allison Coming in 2018 […]
Riding the Ring of Years The Full Text She stepped outside her door She stepped outside her door morning paper early, into a world made private by the sleepers inside, her heart’s hope chest locked away airtight. stepped into an apple green April day when the clear air stopped her, made her […]
(From a drawing by Beverly Furman Partisan Press 1997) In the program for the 2015 Works-in-Progress Conference at Virginia Wesleyan University, Sheila Moran Dinwiddie described herself as a “kitchen table poet.” When I asked what she meant by that, her answer was. “I wrote at home, in the midst of kids and everything that […]
A Catalogue of Books by Patricia Allison. Memory Is The Seamstress. By Dean Robertson and Alison Daniels, writing as Patricia Allison. Available on Amazon. Fortune’s End. By Alison Daniels, writing as Patricia Allison. Available on Amazon. Jessie:The Adventures and Insights of a Nineteenth-Century Woman. By Dean Robertson, writing as Patricia Allison. Available soon […]
By Dean Robertson 11 March 2017: The first emails begin. Three months ago. 7 April 2017: The first blog. We have written seven chapters. Two months ago. 8 April-1 June: We write thirty-one more chapters, edit, re-edit, and fight over the entire thirty-eight. We abandon the project many times. We finish the novel. 13 June 2017: We publish the novel. […]
By Alison Daniels The Brief History of a Writer of Fiction I always wanted to write fiction. I remember, somewhere around the age of five, writing my own little versions of the stories of some of the great operas (as told to me by grandfather), complete with illustrations. I wrote in block lettering, stapled them […]
Arnoia, Spain, where the author edited her novel. On her website–charlottebowyerwriter.com—Charlotte Bowyer quotes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lin-Manuel Miranda, ‘And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, Cannot be killed or swept aside.’ Miranda read his sonnet, from which these lines are taken, as he accepted the first of […]
Arthur Weaver, signed print of Royal and Ancient course at St. Andrews, 1961. Artist: Arthur Weaver Pictures/Getty Images. A Review by Ellen Bunton 😎 (and her eager assistant, Meatball) A Reviewer of Classic Movies Steps […]
