Salutations June 2022

'I admire - and aspire to - crisp, precise prose where every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph moves the story, and therefore you, the reader, forward.'

Salutations, May 2022

'It's May, it's May, the lusty month of May!' The darling month! May!

Salutations, April Fools 2022

Look how that little bee is enjoying my daffodils! (April Fools! They're crocuses, not daffies!)

Salutations March 2022

My wish...to offer hope, beauty, joy that could somehow cure the world of such needless suffering.

Salutations February 21 A Writing Question

Which comes first...a novel or story?

Salutations, January 11 – February 2, 2022

Yes, the Christmas tree is still up. And yes, it is real. But it's still so pretty...and unless I walk too close, the needles stay attached. What's the hurry? Quiet, hibernating days here at Casa Crosiar. Tree gazing, winter watching from our windows, pink-eye retreating. Yes, I had a raging case. No, I did not …

Salutations, December 2021

Books and more...

Salutations September-October, 2021

Yikes. How did two months go by since my last post? Oh right. The semester started. And I co-facilitated a large six-hour virtual training. Yeah. That would be why. My Cornell colleague Wendy Wolfe and I developed and published the Choose Health: Food, Fun, and Fitness curriculum in 2015, and it's gratifying when other states …

Salutations July-August, 2021

I was on such a good run, posting every month...until I wasn't. What happened? Summer should be a slower time. More time to read, more time to write. But it didn't quite turn out that way. So despite daily reminders to POST SALUTATIONS, (yes, the reminders did shout at me) other stuff crowded out the …

Salutations, June 2021

Summertime and the livin' is easy... I have seen a fish jump and I have seen some corn that was way higher than my knee a whole week earlier than the 4th of July. I've got green tomatoes on vines and peppers ready to eat. And lots of happy blooms to enjoy! And oh my, …