Thanks Jodi! I remember reading your reply when Cynthia posted this, but I didn’t reply. Today I was looking up stuff for my new Substack, and I realized that now people can more easily read some of my writing, as I post a version of previously published work every Sunday. Eventually I’ll get to new stuff too!

Thank you!

Karen, reading your reply makes me so happy. Every time I go outside, any day of the year, I always feel better surrounded by air and sky even if it’s pouring rain, as it often does here. It just feels right. And, per science, being out in the light helps us stay healthy in myriad ways. My little trick of the five 36 minute writing sessions a day keeps me writing in ways that feel possible. At one point when I was starting again after a time away, I wrote for fifteen minutes a day. But I showed up for that and it slowly grew. I hope you find a way to show up for your writing and for yourself. We all deserve such joy if that’s what we love.

Thanks for reading Susan!

Thanks Katherine! As you can see, the cedar shakes on Eagle Cottage are…cedar shakes. They weren’t part of the original schoolhouse. I bought them as “thirds” at a mill out on the Coast, and learned how to hang them. Now lovely bats hang upside down beneath the shakes to emerge at dusk and swallow mosquitos. I love the idea of writing on an island. Where is it?