Luanne Castle: Poetry and Other Words (and cats!)

If you’re a blogger you might know Marie at 1 Write Way (this recent blog post of hers was a reposting of her fantabderful (yup, needed a portmanteau word) review of my poetry book Doll God) who h...

Have you ever heard of Feedspot?

They compile databases to save you time from researching. This includes bloggers, influencers, and journalists.

But they are pretty aggressive, and I don’t know how great their assessment is. Ahem!

I only know about them because I’ve gotten a couple of emails from the founder letting me know that my blog, THIS blog, is lis...

So much has happened lately. I went to the Wisconsin Dells with my family for a week and just got back. I took a tumble while I was there. My third one, hitting my head as usual. I’m ok. Hudson had his best life (for now) there.

On his first plane ride

At the lakeshore, on boats, at deer park, and especially the WAWEE PARK!

We had a baby mourning dove (so...

I am going to be off blogging this week and spending time with Hudson but want to share Gwen Wilson’s fabulous review of SCRAP! It provides another important perspective. She and I share a key sociological factor in real life.

https://gwenwilson.com....

Sharing a few more photos I found scanning.

There are two micro stories in Scrap: Salvaging a Family about the May 13, 1980 tornado in Kalamazoo, Michigan (pp 90-92 in paperback). It’s sort of a transition period in the book where I am now an adult, albeit young, whereas what had come before in the book was focused on coming-of-age. It’s also foreshadowed by a...