When Life Gives You “Great Material”
At Medium I wrote about the strangeness of writers being congratulated for the “great material” of a difficult childhood.
At Medium I wrote about the strangeness of writers being congratulated for the “great material” of a difficult childhood.
I’ve started occasionally posting at Medium for fun. Three times is occasionally, right? Turning People Into Demons: Like QAnon believers, my preacher mom projected Satan onto people she didn’t like Don’t Write the Tedious Thing: At times I thought I had to include this or that thing in my book, then remembered I could do whatever I wanted Ancestor-Focused Spiritual . . .
Hi. I’m told my book is headed into production soon, and it will be out in early 2022, probably in March. Whew, and hooray! Date and title to come. I’m excited for you to read it, if you’d like to. Meanwhile, my old Ancestor Hunger newsletter is warming up in the driveway. I’m aiming to send new dispatches every two . . .
I’ve gotten increasingly into container gardening since moving to Queens three years ago, slowly educating myself about welcoming bees, butterflies, and birds, and tending soil. Some of the containers are large elevated beds. A couple months ago, I started planting for pollinators in an old sidewalk tree plot in front of the house. I wrote about it for the Queens . . .