(Almost) daily reflections from novelist and essayist J.F. Riordan, author of the North of the Tension Line series, and of two books of essays on life, "Reflections on a Life in Exile" and "But Still They Sing". Frequent gratuitous dog photos.
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How about a little trip to Green Bay?
I haven’t made many public appearances lately, but I have several coming up I thought you might like to know about.
I’ll be speaking at the UntitledTown Book and Author Festival September 25-27, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
On Friday, Septe...
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Yesterday did not go exactly to plan.
It all started well enough. We got home from church, and although I had intended to nap, I wasn’t really in the mood, so I spent some time puttering around the house, which I enjoy. I interrupted myse...
The Heartbeat of the Earth
It is cool and still this morning. I am half watching four young does quietly grazing in the clearing down the hill, while the turkeys are gathering up the stale breadcrumbs I put out for them last night. I don’t like to overfeed the turkey...
Into the Wild
My discomfort in leaving the house is not agoraphobia, but I’m beginning to feel I am verging on it. As I have written elsewhere, along with the requisite solitude, a writer also needs external stimulation; to be out in the world to see, he...
Life is Still Hard and Everything is Uglier
A long time ago, I was pursuing a dream career in Europe. And although the work I was doing was something that I loved deeply, I realized that the way I was living my life, alone in hotels, among strangers, was not the way I wanted to live....
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