Guest post by Mary Sanders Pollock When I saw My Family and Other Animals on a bookstore shelf thirty years ago, I had to have it. I grew up on a farm, in a large, vociferous family, and the resonance with my own life was obvious. It also turned out to be one of the… Read More »
Guest post by Amy Weldon, excerpted from The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers In 2007, a revised edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary replaced words associated with nature – including acorn, catkin, kingfisher, nectar, and pasture – with words associated with white-collar, adult-driven technology, including block-graph, bullet-point, committee, cut-and-paste, and voice-mail.[1] When asked about… Read More »
