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A poetic salad

Posted on August 7, 2012 by sheilawill

“Don’t worry Sheila, you’ll get to eat,” Candice tells me. We’re drinking tea in her kitchen, talking about relationships, writing, organic produce, Portugal, friendship, the world scene. I’ve been back home in Tucson for a week. As always, my visit … Continue reading →

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Wild as I am

Posted on July 19, 2012 by sheilawill

This year’s wild blueberries lined my solitary walk around Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor yesterday. Today it’s fall on Mount Desert Island — not quite 70 degrees, breezy and gorgeous. A few nights ago, sipping rather large “wild” blueberry/raspberry … Continue reading →

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Hello ocean my old friend

Posted on June 12, 2012 by sheilawill

It’s always been this way. The ocean has always been magical for me. First Hammonasset State Park on the Connecticut shore, then Revere beach north of Boston as a young professional in my 20s, and the one time we visited … Continue reading →

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Tucson Festival of Books Afterglow

Posted on March 13, 2012 by sheilawill

When I come to the last sentence of a book I’ve loved, there’s a little sadness and quiet exhilaration. I sigh. I sit quietly. I may say wow or dang that was good!  Today I had all those feelings. And … Continue reading →

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Only five weeks till the Tucson Festival of Books!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by sheilawill

Proud mama that I am, I’m thrilled that my daughter, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, author of “Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden” — a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice — will be coming from back east to participate … Continue reading →

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Incomprehensibly small world

Posted on June 21, 2011 by sheilawill

Ethan emailed me today that a grad school buddy who’s in Afghanistan is coming up to to join him for a bike trip this weekend in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. When my adventurous, talented son, Ethan, now 30, graduated from Mount Desert … Continue reading →

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