by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 5, 2015 | Artists & the Arts, General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun, Write On
When people ask about my “writing process,” I long to give them the kind of answers I’ve heard from other writers. Things like, “I rise before dawn, eat a slice of whole-wheat bread with organic fig jam, and write for two hours. Then I take up my duties as a...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jun 30, 2015 | General, Signs of the Times
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans’ domestic phone calls in bulk.” – New York Times, June 30, 2015 [Dials the...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 9, 2015 | General, Once Upon a Time
My car passed a beat-up VW bus with a JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOVES YOU bumper sticker and the hippie at the wheel flashed me a peace sign. How had he recognized me as a fellow member of the tribe? By my car’s ban-the-bomb decal, probably, or my tent of long frizzy hair....
by Rhiannon Paine | Apr 7, 2015 | Animal Crackers, General, Just for Fun
“Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.” – Henry Beston I grew up in a pet-less household, and despite reading Black Beauty, Dr. Doolittle, and Beatrix Potter, I regarded animals as...
by Rhiannon Paine | Mar 3, 2015 | General, Once Upon a Time
I’ve traveled on four continents, lived in England and Japan, and gone to sea with the British Merchant Navy. But wherever I am, when I close my eyes against the sun on a hot summer’s day, I’m lying on a front lawn in San Fernando, California. The grass smells...
