by Carolyn Bass | Oct 23, 2015 | Ovations
Earlier this morning I caught the whisper of a song my mother used to play and sing on the piano. She had a voice to rival the divas of her time (and ours), but shared it only in private “concerts” for family and friends. Whenever people came to visit us,...
by Carolyn Bass | Jul 30, 2015 | Ovations, Recipes
What do you do when you miss a couple of days at the vegetable garden and your cucumbers look like this? And when your tomatoes have not yet ripened to make gazpacho with those cucumbers? I have that problem right now. Because of the late frosts in our region of North...
by Carolyn Bass | May 10, 2015 | Ovations
If you have a heart, thank your mother. No matter where she is, or who you are, she gave you birth in an age of choice. (Verse and photo: mine.)
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 28, 2015 | Ovations
I returned yesterday from my magical residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities where I started a brand new novel. This morning I got up excited to resume the routine of making coffee and sitting down with my laptop and my WIP. I made the mistake of...
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 17, 2015 | Ovations
After my dad gave up sword swallowing, he became a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman for the American People’s Encyclopedia. We were probably the only family in America that had a complete set of current encyclopedias along with a rack of sabres, cutlasses and...
by Carolyn Bass | Apr 7, 2015 | Ovations
Why do writers procrastinate? Why do we avoid the task we say we love? As if looking at a wordless page might blight our vision? In fact, once those words hit the page, our vision begins to take shape. Could it be we fear the vision? Certainly not the vision, but our...
