Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

Tag: writing life

  • A Plan in January

    So, last blog I said I would this week reveal my writing plan for the future. First, regarding the future, Fate is in charge. What I intend, though, is this: I’m rejoining my tribe, poets, and now my mornings pages are full of old words and new insights. I’m mining for prompts two books, Tremor…

  • 2017 in Review

    This weekend many of us will look over our shoulders and see what’s behind us, not what’s stalking us, but what we have accomplished, other than staying alive. Mostly, I think of the work I’ve done. Keeping a positive attitude so that I don’t shred myself to tatters over what’s left undone. So, let’s see…

  • What Inspires Me

    TWISTED TREES It’s easy to praise lush trees weighted with fruit or flowers but the true test of love is to trace skeletal silhouettes, stripped of their leaves by the wind. What remains— the endurance of bark, exposed, the wisdom of bare branches to carry less of winter’s weight.    Karen Douglass Photograph used with…

  • A Week of Weakness

    My recent illness was not exotic, just an annoying head cold that required me to stay close to the tissue box and the herbal tea, and prevented me from leaving home in order not to offend or contaminate others. One of the several annoyances this week was the distraction of sneezing, coughing and dripping. My…

  • Life Gets Busy, You Know?

    I try to keep a schedule for the blog posts but some weeks it just doesn’t fit comfortably. And comfort becomes important as I juggle two writing projects. (Not to mention planning a launch party for the third novel.) One of the current projects is genealogy. It’s been years in the making, documenting the lives of…