Most stories involve travel, in the form of a journey. You know the cliché about the “hero’s journey.” It’s used all the time because it’s something we can relate to – the need to get away, to explore, to experience the unfamiliar and unknown, to travel far and wide before we can find our way … Continue reading The Journey at Home (Hint: Word Hunters, Look Here!)
memories
The Good Fire
After more than a month of wildfires burning in our part of the country, and living in a smoky haze, it was such a treat to visit a friend on the other side of the mountains and be reminded of the enchanting power of a good fire. This week's Project Create tries to evoke the … Continue reading The Good Fire
Innocence, Experience
This week's Project Create, and, as usual, it ain’t just a music review. How could it be, when the twelve hours of music I want to describe took place as part of a motorcycle rally, the first I’ve ever attended? There’s probably a novel’s worth of stories to come from this weekend, the Lava Run … Continue reading Innocence, Experience
I Want
Inspired by the toast from the groom to all the guests at a wedding I attended over the weekend, this piece is called “I Want.” The groom is one of the most genuinely kind and generous people you’ll ever meet, and when he said friends and family are everything to the newly-wed couple, he meant … Continue reading I Want
Commencement 2012
This week's Project Create, inspired by graduating students everywhere. This is the moment. Standing at the entrance to an upper-level aisle, gazing down on the Key Arena floor, where everything is set up for the commencement ceremony that will start in about two hours. No one’s seated yet, the staff’s still working last-minute details while … Continue reading Commencement 2012
Stuff
Here's a link to a piece I wrote for The Writer's Vineyard, a blog for authors at Champagne Books (the group who will publish my novel next spring). It's about the ways we all travel through time even though we're not characters in a science fiction story (or are we?). It's also this week's Project … Continue reading Stuff
Time Less
Inspired by the long and winding road known as Highway 14 that follows the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge from the Maryhill Musuem to Vancouver, WA, and this week's Project Create.You can't tell time on this road.Your clocks stop working.Haven't you noticed? You can tell other things on this road: You can tell hawks, … Continue reading Time Less
A moment of creation
Taken with the funky camera in my phone. Seems to speak for itself, as to why it's this week's Project Create.
“closed forever.”
Looking through some photos I took in New Orleans last week... This sign is on a crypt in St. Louis Cemetery Number One, in the French Quarter in New Orleans, LA. It opened in 1789. Cemeteries in New Orleans are above ground, because much of the city is under sea level. They are sometimes referred … Continue reading “closed forever.”
Ode to a Giant Mini-Schnauzer from Mars
Our dog Charlie is now in doggy heaven. The truth is, the only thing to say about him is that he was The. Best. Dog. Ever. But I’ll say a bit more. He loved us with all his doggy heart, and those of you who have been loved by a dog know how powerful their … Continue reading Ode to a Giant Mini-Schnauzer from Mars
Elizabeth Fountain, Author 