Adapting a Studio to a Changing Economy. Trending items seem to be going toward the more delicate, minimalist, and refined. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. Nothing disappears without a trace. Willow Run, by J.

I announced yesterday on my Facebook page that I will be donating the proceeds from my novel Lucky Southern Women to Saving Sweet Briar, Inc. More at the Propertius Press website.

OPINION, LIFESTYLE, A DASH OF GEOPOLITICS, A HODGEPODGE OF BOOKS, COOKING, GARDENING. Such violence usually outrages well-educated middle class Americans who have the leisure to reflect on civil liberties around the globe. Why did she think, I asked my neighbor, that events of vital importance to Brazilian elicited so little interest from most Americans? How would she respond when her own time is equally taken up by her work and parental responsibilities? NO TCHA, NO TCHU.

Friday, August 21, 2009. I lay here making guesses. Sideways to the waters edge. Murmur into the night air. Wednesday, August 5, 2009. On the side of the road. We bought our first car. During the opening salvos of the. The road still takes us where it took us before. Past the same windows flashing. Images of the same war. While on the side of the road. Saturday, July 25, 2009.