11 August 2016
Spent all day canning and preserving food. Always takes me back into the company of all those over time who did this before me, especially the women who taught me, as a child, to can and put up food for the winter.
Make art about food as heritage.
12 August 2016
Was abruptly awakened by a crow at the window, informing me—loudly–that the suet cages needed filling 🙂
Make art about being awakened suddenly.
Sooo excited! 😀 Woot!!!
Readings scheduled so far for this fall in West Virginia (this coming weekend! Thank you Love you Mary Imo Stike!), two in October: one here at Longwood, and one in the Charlotte area (Thank you Love you Jonathan Kevin Rice!), and then in December in WInston Salem (Thank you Love you Kathryn Milam!)
And BIG GRATITUDE to the fabulous generous editors who made these crazy lil books possible–Karen Kelsay Davies with Kelsay Books and Diane Kistner and Robert S. King with FutureCycle Press
! Y’all rock!
6 August 2016
Time with my daughter, son-in-law, and that miraculous GrandPerson. Looking into my grandson’s eyes, I can see eternity ❤
Make art about what you see in a child’s eyes.
7 August 2016
Love coming home to find tomatoes ripening to red, okra reaching fingers to the sky, even those last cucumbers still making their climb up the trellis 🙂
Deep within each one of us lies a garden.~Julie Moir Messervy
Make art about the garden that lies within you.
8 August 2016
Had the chance today to spend time with my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years. So good for my heart!
Make art about extended family.
9 August 2016
Thinking on this today.
Make art about the power of belief.
Had a chance to see my sister and a beautiful cousin I haven’t seen in years yesterday, so we’re a day late, but I promise this writer is worth the wait! 🙂
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This week meet Jerry D. Mathes II, author of Fever and Guts: A Symphony, Ahead of the Flaming Front (winner of the North American Book Award), The Journal West, Fall in the Borderland, and the forthcoming collection of short stories, Shipwrecks and Other Stories. Jerry is a Jack Kent Cooke alumnus and is also the author of Still Life: A Novella, winner of the Meadow Prize for the Novella. His photography, poems, essays, and short stories, have won numerous awards. In 2011, he produced a short film, “Drinking Sangria in the Cold War,” which was adapted from one of his award winning short stories. He has worked as a martial arts instructor, an armor crewman, a construction worker, hotel auditor, car salesman, repo-man, delivery guy, cable guy, went logging, worked in forestry, crewed on several types of fishing vessels, fought wildfire on a helicopter-rappel crew, taught writing at the University of Idaho and Stephen F. Austin State University and taught the Southernmost Writers Workshop in the World at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Antarctica during the 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 Austral summer seasons where he worked in logistics. He also wrote and directed two short films while at the South Pole. In 2012 he produced a video essay about wildfire. He loves his two daughters very much.
Jerry’s Website
Buy Jerry’s Books!
Pre-Order Shipwrecks and Other Stories!
https://www.amazon.com/Shipwrecks-other-Stories-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1622881338
Fever and Guts: A Symphony
https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Guts-Symphony-Jerry-Mathes/dp/1936205858/
Ahead of the Flaming Front
http://caxtonpress.com/aheadoftheflamingfrontalifeonfire.aspx
Fall in the Borderland
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1015
Read More from Jerry Online
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/jerry-d-mathes-ii
https://thesunmagazine.org/_media/article/pdf/436_Mathes.pdf
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/jerry-d-mathes-ii-three-easter-sundays/
http://www.snreview.org/0108Mathes.html
http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/009/mathes_jerry_001.html
https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/in-fire/
Jerry on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/jdmathes
Happy Reading!
Xo
Mary
2 August 2016
Bought my great-nephew his own ice cream maker and together we made his first homemade ice cream. He declared it was “the best ever!”
Make art about an ice cream memory.
3 August 2016
Had a great conversation with Road Angel Casey, who left her job at Duke University to start a small organic farm, selling vegetables and flowers, nut butters and preserves from a roadside stand.
Make art about taking the risk to grow a dream.
4 August 2016
A woman at a gas station came running toward me, smiling and waving and yelling, “Donna! Donna! I haven’t seen you in so long!” I smiled, shaking my head, waiting for her to realize that I wasn’t Donna after all. As she reached me, her face fell, and she looked so embarraassed, and I said, “I’m sorry.” She laughed and said, “No, I’m sorry. I could’ve sworn–” She laughed. I said, “I’m Mary, but I bet you could find Donna, if you looked. Have you tried Facebook?” I told her about finding my friend Lynne again after many years, and how blessed we both felt. She said, “I haven’t looked for her, but I think I will.” She left smiling, and I finished pumping my gas, climbing back into my car, wishing, for just a second, I had been Donna, this friend who brought such a smile to the woman’s face.
Make art about mistaken identity. Or about finding that wonderful friend again.
5 August 2016
Dreamt I was in a crowded park handing out sparklers. So many sparklers, so many people. Before too long, the park was shimmering with light and color.
Make art about ways of sharing Light.
30 July 2016
Finally got started on my summer canning.
Make art about preserving something.
31 July 2016
“We move to find what we cannot see”~David Wagoner
Make art about forms of blindness.
1 August 2016
Earth. Air. Fire. Water.
Make art about an elemental force.
This week meet Marie Manilla, author The Patron Saint of Ugly, winner of the Weatherford Award. Her novel Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. Still Life with Plums: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Marie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, SouthWrit Large, and other journals. She’s also an incredibly kind and generous person.
Visit Marie’s Website Here: http://www.mariemanilla.com/
Buy Marie’s Beautiful Books!
The Patron Saint of Ugly
Still Life With Plums: Short Stories
http://www.wvupressonline.com/manilla_still_life_with_plums_9781933202600
Shrapnel
More from Marie Online
http://tetheredbyletters.com/fronline-short-story-laser-beam/
http://www.cleavermagazine.com/belle-fleur-by-marie-manilla/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVI2ki_6KE
http://wvupressonline.com/author_bio/manilla
http://monkeybicycle.net/dragonfly/
http://dev.writersdojo.org/author/mariemanilla/
Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs
http://www.mariemanilla.com/interviewsreviewsblogs.htm
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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