We’ve all seen the headlines, how the homeless are being harassed, their tents and belongings bulldozed away, being told to …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
Things have been crazy around here this summer, getting ready to launch my debut novel, as well as visits with the grandkids, swimming in our backyard bathtub (the pool and air temp both a lovely 8…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
3 posts published by Deborah J. Brasket during August 2025| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
I’ve always been a romantic. Unabashedly so. A lover of life and all things sweet and sensual, tender and erotic, playful and passionate. Perhaps it’s summer with its balmy moonlit nigh…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
I’ve always been fascinated by the Japanese art of kintsugi and all it represents. “The story of kintsugi—this style of …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket
Deep summer for me always evokes lush gardens, lovers strolling, lazy afternoons in the sun and shade, children laughing and playing on the beach. It brings to mind the sun-splashed, sensual painti…| Deborah J. Brasket
“What if” sets the imagination soaring and compels writers to pick up their pens or pull out their laptops. It’s …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket
My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket
Writing—or any creative endeavor—to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk: Faith that what you have to offer others will be worth the time it takes to read your work and will add …| Deborah J. Brasket
Photo of French Actress Barbara Laage, Alone in Her Apartment Reading What books were most influential in shaping the way you think and write today? It’s a question I asked myself years ago. What f…| Deborah J. Brasket
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think so. Images and ideas are the paint, words the loaded brush, and sentences our brushstrokes. Th…| Deborah J. Brasket
Painting by Erin Gregory Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just the exercise we look forward to, or the relief from the heat, or …| Deborah J. Brasket
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. It may be an elemental part of who we are, to see something of ourselves in…| Deborah J. Brasket
