by Laura Rink | May 29, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
April’s bounty, and showers, continue with this month’s collection of blossoms: pink columbine, purple rhododendron, red salvia, sweet woodruff, and the sweet perfume of lilacs and lilies of the valley . . . to name a few. This month also marks a year since I began...
by Laura Rink | Apr 24, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
April showers bring May flowers, so the saying goes. In other words, endure April for the reward of May. Yet April offers its own bounty: cherry blossoms, swaths of tulips, and the unfurling of maple leaves, to name a few. April also brings those showers, tree pollen,...
by Laura Rink | Mar 27, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
The harbingers of spring continue this month, with azaleas, daffodils, and forsythia in full bloom, and maples, alders, and dogwood trees beginning to bud out. We have a mallard couple visiting our pond and a blush of robins spreads over the front field bobbing for...
by Laura Rink | Jan 24, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
January bears the burden of high expectations: A New Year! Resolutions! Winter projects! If last month I was tired, this month, the winter holidays behind me now, I felt ready to be productive—I will get so much done this month! And yet this month has flown by—is it...
by Laura Rink | Aug 30, 2023 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
Work: Have you heard the term micro prose? I recently took a class from Darien Hsu Gee, a fellow Rainier Writing Workshop alum, in which she illuminated the benefits of writing micro prose: pieces of 300 words or less. She is passionate about this form, and offered...
by Laura Rink | Jun 29, 2023 | Memoir, Nature, Writing
Welcome to my blog. First time here? Check out May’s blog for info on my intentions for this space. Work: Last October while reading Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train, a novella-length essay in fragments about, to name a few, mortality, Samuel Beckett, and memory, I...
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