Collected Essays from the First Six Years
July 1, 2006
Saturday
It was early February of 1999. I was almost 52 years old and in my first year of retirement from a long teaching career. I was trying to reinvent myself as a writer of fiction and memoir. I was searching about on the World Wide Web (probably not using Google yet) for personal […]
January 5, 2006
Thursday
Tomorrow is the last day of Holidailies. I missed six dates and won’t be able to post material to each date in time for the final official tally. Once again, I enjoyed the whole enterprise. I started writing again, I got interested in some new journals, and I even once again saw a […]
January 2, 2006
Monday
When my house was built in 1976 it stood on a strip of land that was bordered on the north, the south, and the west by open farmland. In fact, the cluster of houses that comprises my neighborhood is on land that the Reichert family farmed until the day they sold it to […]
December 29, 2005
Thursday
I started my Winter Count before the official start of Holidailies with a picture of the Stabler Trees, one of the first images I took last year with my new camera. Above is how they looked near sunset on the day of the solstice, December 21, 2005.
In December I woke up. I saw […]
