You may have noticed that my blog has been pretty quiet this summer. I think I’ve had trouble writing through the noise. Beginning in January, our home has been adjacent to a major construction project. By “adjacent” I mean that my office window is forty feet from heavy machinery that rumbles, buzzes, crunches, beeps, bangs,Continue reading “More Important Than Ever”
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Making Peace With Summer
This Facebook memory popped up today from June 20, 2018, when I was still teaching seventh grade: “Hubby refers to the person he’s living with right now as ‘Summer Carie.’ Summer Carie is a little crazy. She stays up late but also, somehow, gets up early. She reads for hours on end, only stopping toContinue reading “Making Peace With Summer”
Finding the Plot
As a writer whose work is regularly interrupted by piddly things like my job, I leave a lot of books and stories unfinished, sometimes for months or even years at a time. When I come back to a piece to start working on it again, it’s often hard to remember where I left off. ButContinue reading “Finding the Plot”
Carie Juettner 