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River report: fear and trust
Our boats at Triplet Falls campsite, in the calm water above the cascade that is the falls. Yesterday late afternoon when I returned from the river, after I had shaken the sand out of my gear, sorted...
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Books: World Enough & Time
World Enough & Time, by Christian McEwen The subtitle of this intriguing book, “On Creativity and Slowing Down,” makes it clear what the title alludes to: the cost of our culture’s “hurry sickness”...
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Road Report: New Mexico, Arkansas and then home
Cottonwoods along Ojo Caliente Wash, New Mexico. It’s been a traveling week: I’ve been to New Mexico, and then driven the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma to northwest Arkansas. Tomorrow I hit the road for...
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Road Report: Miami and home again
Biscayne Bay and the Venetian Causeway from my hotel room balcony (that’s Miami Beach in the distance). Last week I was in Miami, staying in a hotel on the shore of Biscayne Bay. All I saw of South...
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Catching Up: Keynote & Comic
Rhymes With Orange, Copyright Hilary B. Price The comic first: I was cleaning out another one of Richard’s file cabinets the other day. (He had eight four-drawer file cabinets full of teaching files,...
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Beginnings and endings
The courtyard between the lodge and the hot springs at Joyful Journey as winter sunset colors the Sangre de Cristo Range in the background. “Begin as you intend to continue,” my Scots grandmother used...
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Heading home….
The view from my hotel room, looking north up Miami Beach. I’m writing this from the Miami Airport, where the air conditioning is cold and the air outside is warm and heavy with humidity. I’ve been in...
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Rain! (and an update)
A sheen of moisture on the paving stoves of my bedroom patio before dusk fell. It’s raining tonight, a fall of small droplets visible in the lights of the parking lot across the way. The rain is so...
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Books: True Nature & Resilience
Two extraordinary hand-made books have landed on my desk recently, one printed conventionally but written in the author’s fluid calligraphy and illustrated from her field-journals, and the other...
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Opening a vein
My office with the desk Richard built to fit into the bay of windows overlooking the kitchen garden, town and the mountains. Every evening for the past few, I’ve thought: I need to write a blog post....
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Cranes and home
Sandhill cranes flying over a marsh, Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado Last weekend, I taught a creative writing workshop at the Monte Vista Crane Festival, an annual celebration of the...
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At home and in the garden
Half-planted flat of tomato and basil seedlings–the wicking mat waters the roots from underneath. I’m struggling a little as I attempt to balance crafting my new memoir with other writing projects,...
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Writing & Retreating Time
Joyful Journey in the quiet before dawn. I’ve just returned from Joyful Journey Lodge & Spa in the the San Luis Valley, after four intense and inspiring days leading this year’s first Write &...
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Wind, Hope and New Workshops
Installing the blue styrofoam footer forms on a windy afternoon. (We’re still “below ground.” The tops mark the floor level of the new house.) The wind is howling outside, roaring by in gusts that feel...
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Books I’m Reading & a Brag
Normally, I’m a voracious and eclectic reader. Right now, with two intense writing projects, plus consulting on the launch of a new program on landscaping for wildlife, finish carpentry at this house...
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Progress report: the Red Queen and Rainbows
Pouring the slab, the floor of my tiny-house-to-be. (The blue walls in front are the foundation.) I feel like the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass: running and running just to...
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Hot off the press: eNewsletter and life
The first page of the two-page current issue I send out a “News from Sus[an]” newsletter by email every so often with updates on my writing, teaching and life in general. I try to put them out...
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Writing Memoir: progress report
Richard and Susan in the Tularosa Basin of Southern New Mexico, around 1992. Last week, I finished the first draft of Bless the Birds, my new memoir. Mind you, the story isn’t anywhere near finished....
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Road Trip!
Dad with Colin and his little brother Liam last summer This Tuesday noon, the little Subaru Forester and I will aim west on US 50, headed for my brother’s house in Olympia, Washington, 1,444 miles...
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Passages: Poet Sandra Lynn
Sandra D. Lynn and granddaughter Skye Last Wednesday morning, on my long drive to Western Washington, I stopped to check email in Spanish Fork on Utah’s Wasatch Front, between spearing peaks and...
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