August | 2025 | Deborah J. Brasket, Author
4 posts published by Deborah J. Brasket during August 2025| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
4 posts published by Deborah J. Brasket during August 2025| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
3 posts published by Deborah J. Brasket during October 2025| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
October is the month I was born and the month my mother died. Sweetness and sadness rolled into one. It …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
“There are some days I think I’m going to die from an overdosis of satisfaction.” – Salvador Dali I felt that “overdosis of satisfaction” when I visited the Salvador Dali Museum in Bru…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
4 posts published by Deborah J. Brasket during July 2025| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
In the brilliant dark comedy “In Bruges,” a mobster sends his two hitmen to Bruges to cool their heels after a …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
After these past two tumultuous weeks launching my new novel, I felt a sudden need to space out for a …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
My debut novel When Things Go Missing is finally, officially, published today! It is a creative endeavor long in the making that enriched my life and I hope will enrich the lives of readers. Y…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
Can you believe it! Nearly a decade in the making, two title and book cover switches, tons of editing and …Continue reading →| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
Le Pradet, Jeune Femme Au Hamac (Nono)Henri Lebasque What are our responsibilities toward our own self-actualization? I think we all seek authenticity, to be who we truly think we are “at heart.” T…| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
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
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
Orphans from Annie movie 1982 Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet she did so with such optimism and resilience we fel…| 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 pottery—may be the most perfect embodiment of all our trauma-shattered …| Deborah J. Brasket, Author
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
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
