Archive - In Our Own Ink

Making Room for Early

Experimenting with time and awareness

Apr 7 •

March 2024

Starting, and starting again...

It's not insanity to keep painting the same wall, writing the same book, the same poem, as long as you're trying, learning, revising, and approaching…

Mar 20 •

February 2024

A Textured Life

Texture …Today on a Zoom presentation, I heard author Drew Gilpin Faust refer to the “texture of life” when discussing her new memoir, Necessary…

Feb 28 •

Rich with Neighbors

In this moment, we are enough

Feb 12 •

January 2024

This will be quick...

A writer on deadline with publication to share

Jan 31 •

This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home

Poems leave footprints

Jan 20 •

Behind the scenes of a writing life: Over sixty and just getting started!

Jan 14 •

December 2023

A new beginning emerges

Unpaved roads sometimes lead to unexpected stories

Dec 23, 2023 •

Watch the flame and pray for peace

Light a candle for someone, somewhere

Dec 7, 2023 •

November 2023

The Girl Who Fell Off the Shelf

...and landed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebook

Nov 30, 2023 •

Facing Fear at 12,000 Feet

or wherever you are

Nov 8, 2023 •

Blue Sky over San Quentin Prison

We hold these truths....

Nov 3, 2023 •

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