Break Me In, Montana
Break Me in, Montana by Laura A. Munson I begged for this. This house. This land. This time. This husband and these children. I begged to know a place season for season. To use last summer’s spent...
View ArticleCircling the Heart of Community
Take a quick mind stroll down your top five favorite buildings from childhood. Now take away any of them that were closed to the public. What’s left? Church? The library? The post office? The hardware...
View ArticleNot Another Coffee Table Book. Munch.
I love this book. I am drawn to books about artists. I want to know how other people, whether they were painters or sculptors or writers, lived the solitary life. Some did it in suffering. Some did...
View ArticleSweet Home Chicago Pummeled
Play this from iconic weatherman (and one of my personal idols), Tom Skilling while you gasp at these photos of Chicago, my home town. This is insane even by Montana standards! I remember the blizzard...
View ArticleWriter Psychology 101: Filtering Critique
For many years prior to being published, I honed the skill of asking for help. It’s never easy, but one writer told me a long time ago that you have to ask. As every writer of books knows, after a …...
View ArticleLong Ago: Community Entry #12
As you may know, I am spending a few months in the dormancy of winter, working on a book. And, like last year at this time, I am offering my blog to you. Last year we looked into our Breaking …...
View ArticleAmtrak Ode– The Train to Haven
Every-so-often, there is a perfect confluence in life—even in the life of a writer. When childhood romanticism meets adult sentimentalism, when whimsy and bravery stand side-by-side, when the world of...
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