Well, I took a trip to the public library. I think I wrote about finding Erica Jong, but I also found Ed Yong (interesting names there) and his remarkable 2015 book about microbes. I know, yuck, but he’s such an excellent writer the topic reads like a novel! Plus the science itself is superbly interesting.ContinueContinue reading “End of April – Annie’s Book Shelf”
Author Archives: Leslie Costello
In praise of procrastination
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Pexels.com Incomplete projects mock my commitment make a fool of me to myself keep me from moving forward. How many articles and books lie, embryonic, in my files? Ideas barely developed Concepts without details Kernels that never get to pop. In the meantime, I tidy obsessively -Oh, no, not myContinueContinue reading “In praise of procrastination”
I sometimes do things backward.
I do a thing, and then I learn how it should be done. I guess I could say that I like to learn by doing. That’s an odd thing for me to realize, given that I spent years in traditional education (learning by learning….and later, learning by teaching….). I’ve finished drafting my second novel andContinueContinue reading “I sometimes do things backward.”
Writing life
The art of reading, the practice of writing Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Pexels.com Well, I have been reading. Reading and reading. Latest is the new Arkady Martine, The Desolation of Peace. Before that, I read On Brassard’s Farm on my beloved Kindle. Before that, Kate Horsely’s Confessions of a Pagan Nun. The pagan nunContinueContinue reading “Writing life”