by Linda | Apr 29, 2019 | Writing & Words
Ara Taylor, project manager for The Kumquat Challenge, emceed the KC celebration and announced the 2019 winners on April29th. In the Student Category: Kristen Dietz, 1st place; Rem Naughton, 2nd; Mariia Neguliaeva, 3rd. Community Category: Sally Sheedy, 1st; Alana...
by Linda | Jan 20, 2019 | Writing & Words
Cradle Rolls, Rabbit Holes, Serendipity & Obliquity I discovered my mother’s 1908 decorative Cradle Roll certificate, a document that had foundered, unexamined, while boxed in my last two garages. Squelching embarrassment, I reveled in the...
by Linda | Mar 18, 2018 | Writing & Words
Several months ago, I was having lunch with two friends I hadn’t seen in a while. Both were retired librarians with new avocations: one is a potter, the other writes local history. The local historian, after learning that I had a blog, said, “Well, what do...
by Linda | Feb 25, 2017 | Authors, Books & Bookstores, Writing & Words
Dingle: From a Writer’s POV A friend of mine who read “Irish Literature: In the Air” commented, “I thought Dingle was just a peninsula.” It is a peninsula–-a peninsula on the westernmost tip of Ireland––and it includes Dingle Town. Anyone who travels to Ireland...
