Susanne Hicks
You will always come away from a visit with some little treasure.
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The Task at Hand
http://shoreacres.wordpress.com
Sharing stories, trading secrets, weaving new realities of threads pulled from discarded memories or long forgotten dreams - those are the tasks of a new writer, dedicated to new endeavors.
Living a quiet and hidden life, anchored to my dock like a barnacle to a piling, I varnish boats on the Texas Gulf Coast. My dock provides both things Virginia Woolf recommended for a woman who writes: money, from the labor, and a room of my own - space and solitude for thought, remembrance, and creative reflection on the truths and mysteries of life.
- Added on: Jul 5th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: shoreacres
- Listed in: Non-Fiction How-To
- Tags: travel inspiration memoir mythology personal essays peace & justice
Recent Posts
Invention and Necessity
Finding a copy of The New Yorker magazine in the middle of the West African bush never was easy. In Liberia in the 1970s, it nearly was impossible. In those days, living 120 miles inland from the coast and being limited to markets and ...
A Different Kind of Horror
Halloween is the season of horror. Goblins, ghoulies and ghosties skulk around the edges of consciousness. Television movie channels pull from their graves the remains of plots that refuse to die ~ Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca – while Hi...
Furnishing Our Stories
I suppose there are as many reasons to blog as there are bloggers. Curiosity about the world, a willingness to accede to Durrell’s conviction that reality can be “reworked to show its significant side“ and the pure pleasure of...
Virginia Throws Open the Window
It began quietly enough, with a certain restlessness, a reluctance to re-establish routine, an inability to focus on the tasks at hand. I’d been traveling, wheeling across the Mississippi Delta for days, peripatetic as a dream, imbi...
Back to the Scrap Heap
I love researching the pedigree of blog awards. It’s a grown-up, voluntary version of the forced march our 6th grade Catechism class made through the book of Genesis. Just as following those Biblical “begats” back t...
The Banned and the Beautiful
“Flophouse” made me giggle. I’d never heard such a word, and when I pulled the slim yellow volume from my parents’ bookshelves, admiring the bold red print along the spine and the rough, burlap texture of its cover, I was...
Comments & Reviews
This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 4 comments.
Désirée
I love reading this blog. There is so much heart in what is written.
timethief
This is a very sensitively written and fascinating personal blog containing stories from discarded memories, mythology and long forgotten dreams.
Wonderful to read as you have made your writing a form of art with your memories and creativity.
Especially your bluebird of perception. :)
Posted: April 19th, 2009 | More Reviews From AngieA | Report This Comment