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Here's where I come to write creatively--non-fiction, fiction, fragments of letters, and poetry.

By invitation only, so if you've serendipitously found me and want to be added to my friends' list, email me and tell me why.

"Who has words at the right moment?" ~Charlotte Brontë

"Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length." -Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses


"Something else: at times I think that I will be able to write one day, to describe things, but then I suddenly grow tired and say to myself, "Why all these words?" I want every word I write to be born, truly born, none to be artificial, everyone to be essential. For otherwise there is no point to it at all. And that is why I shall never be able to make a living by writing, why I must always have a job to earn my keep. Every word born of an inner necessity--writing must never be anything else." ~Etty Hillesum, from An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork