A gentle breeze caresses my arm as I reach for a cherry tomato. Gathering our summer harvest puts me into an altered state. It’s just me and the smell of the tomato plants and lavender. The chirps of birds and crickets are all I hear until a driver at the corner street intersection honks hisContinue reading “Coping Mechanisms for a Divided World“
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Dear Abby Dear Someone Please Give Me Advice
I’ve been reading advice columns as long as I’ve been reading the newspaper. I began by reading Ann Landers in the Baltimore Sun. When living in California and Massachusetts I was reading Dear Abby, further elaborated on by that wonderful John Prine song “Dear Abby”. What better advice can there be then, You areContinue reading “Dear Abby Dear Someone Please Give Me Advice”
Writers, Social Media and the Art of Self-Promotion
Who can resist a parade of bright yellow sunflowers? If your posts are read and liked, you’ve done the work.
Maintaining Traditions or Playing it Safe? Chasing That Wild Turkey.
Bad news is not welcome. The hard fast reality is that our local hospital may have to start prioritizing patients.
A Pandemic Distraction. Give a Book for Xmas. Nadja Maril’s Favorite 2020 Reads.
Novels can take you to another time and place, and with the Global Pandemic raging around me, I was delighted to take refuge within several that were located in exotic places and spanned multiple generations.
Keep Me Posted- Short Story Published
No one ever dies on Facebook or do they?
Nadja Maril, Writer & Author 