Oh! Looking forward to this! #booksky

I love writing, plotting, worrying, walking with the characters, dreaming up plots, even editing. Love playing w/ my imagination! I enjoy it all! Why should a machine have the fun? If the AI pushers want to vacuum my house, rake the leaves, do laundry--yes! But hands off my creativity!

Love Little Apple Bookshop! 📚

Great thread about how to make history, well-researched history, widely accessible. Be sure to read the thread with which this thread is engaging. #history

Creativity, Inspiration, and Quiet Sunday evening I offered a writing workshop at the wonderful Edmonds Bookshop with two fellow writers, Catherine Broadwall and Alice Boatwright, our theme, Writing a Life. We each described how we came to writing and how we’ve navigated our careers. We’re all…

Long live Pope Leo!

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Looking forward to this tonight! Edmonds Bookshop offered this *free* writing workshop to the first 25 registrants as a community building event & we were delighted. #IndependentBooksellers foster community. #books edmondsbookshop.com/event/2026-0...

pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral scene individable, or poem unlimited

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Monk Bar, York.

A surprise gift today. My brother-in-law knows I love the purple-blooms on the Rose of Sharon in my late sister's garden. This is very close! We've become very close since her death, cheering each other. Far apart, but texting and calling frequently. ❤️#garden

So this made my day!

The Riverwoman knows this. 💚

Delightful! What a marvelous way to stay busy while worrying whether your beloved cat is okay. #cats And, yes, she's back: www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...

I sat down to write the scene I'd been thinking about, but I wound up in a character's head in the middle of the night, a storm raging outside. He's pacing, agonizing about how to know his own heart. It sets the scene for the one I'd been thinking about, makes it more interesting. ✨

Hindsight...

New post I wrote on the problems with raptus. Enjoy! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/r...

Ah, early morning watering season begins in the garden & my muse awakes. Ideas flow as I move about the garden, then flow into my files back in my office. In autumn and winter my muse is coaxed with early walks; now through the end of summer she arrives as I water & weed. 🪽✨

Angels.

I'll try this again. Hurrah!

Skye Nursery senior discount Wednesday! These three star jasmine will grace the new trellises outside my office windows and OMG the scent is amazing. Though a bit much in the ride home, right behind my seat. #garden #naturewriting

Glorious bluebells!

Murderbot is baaaaaaaaack!!!!!!

In the midst of morning meditation, Jasper suggested a scene, I said, okay, no, wait, are you sure you are okay seeing her again after all this time, all the hurt, in this moment? He said, trust me, I can cope. Trust the inner wisdom of my characters--it always pays off. He was quiet then. 🙏✨✍️

Intriguing idea. Existential therapy asks what gives meaning to our lives rather than what do we need to fix. Exploring philosophically, seeking wisdom. It's what many of us find helpful about Buddhist psychology. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"Researchers from the “Seeing the Dead” project say the discovery provides invaluable insights into the grief felt by Roman families and the wealth of those who could afford such luxury in life and death." Fascinating discovery. #York #Roman

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling: 1. Gave a dharma talk at the Sunday sangha; much about Magda Digby. 😊 2. Dug up volunteer passion flower vines and potted them. 3. Dug up volunteer clematis vines and potted them. 4. Watered the garden 5. Sat in the garden 6. Wrote a scene in my wip.

My latest, graced by stunning drone photos by @kuow.org's Megan Farmer:

I love this book! And just look at this deal! #booksky #mysteries

The Maggie says, may your #Caturday plans include happily rolling around in a sunbeam.

This is gorgeous, and true. "Before one can sing, one needs to understand the power of silence."

Echoes the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed in 2001, with the brass hands resourced from artillery brass from Afghanistan, "the right hand invokes the Abhaya mudra, which signifies fearlessness, while the left hand connotes compassion & sincerity through the Varada mudra." On the High Line ☮️🙏

"Here Melancholy, absorbed in his struggles, with a pale face & cold, dry complexion, sits by himself in his studies. He is in the woods, without any company except for Madge the owl & a melancholy cat, two hateful & ominous animals that loathe the light." 1/2 www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/s...

The Wolf and His King by @finnlongman.com is an exquisite retelling of Marie de France's lai, Bisclavret. Read it slowly, savor it. It will break your heart. Then read it again to savor the language. A brilliant use of verse within the prose. #medievalsky #booksky #medieval #bookreview

The "w" on my keyboard is sticking, sometimes doubling up, sometimes reappearing after the following letter, sometimes both! How'wws your day going?

My latest blog post with a celebration of spring in the garden, some info about the Owen Archer ebooks and audiobooks, and more. Enjoy! #booksky #medieval #mysteries

Think he's forgotten the war he began, the one no one wanted, the one we're paying for?

My latest blog post with a celebration of spring in the garden, some info about the Owen Archer ebooks and audiobooks, and more. Enjoy! #booksky #medieval #mysteries

"It growes in untoiled places neere highwaies and the sea marishes, and in such like places. "It groweth very plentifully in Holland in Lincolneshire, and in the Isle of Ely at a place called Walsoken, neere unto Wisbitch." Sleeping Nightshade, Gerard's Herbal The language! The specificity! 🌼📖

Film you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif “Hard mode:“ No Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR, Disney or Ghibli. (Easy if you were a Gen X kid with two videotapes in the house.)

😍 A gem! Wonderful diagram of a Guidonian hand!

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Happy #indiebookstoreday! We have so many in Seattle, like Third Place Books (3 locations!), University Bookshop, Secret Garden, Phinney Books, & a short drive away Edmonds Bookstore--where I will be leading a writing workshop on 17 May with @alicekboatwright.bsky.social & Catherine Broadwall! 📚

"I’m writing against despair. A sense of the big, of the wonders of the cosmos, & also the strange, like quantum theory, reminds us that the universe still holds curiosity & possibility... my mom told me, that people need to know that the universe is bigger than the bad things that happen to us."❤️

Mood.

All 16 Owen Archer ebooks are now on Kindle Unlimited--The Apothecary Rose $.99 for non-members, the rest $2.99. Follow Owen & Lucie from their prickly first encounter through the years, read of Brother Michaelo's redemption, meet the Riverwoman & her apprentice Alisoun Ffulford. #booksky #mysteries

Happy Earth Day 2026 😀

This. ❤️

New glasses. Why is that so exciting? Beats me, but it is!