Christie Palmer Lowrance - Blog

Nature & Conservancy in a Read-Aloud, Child-Friendly Package

When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to inclu...

"Nature's Ambassador" at MA Audubon Birders' Meeting This Weekend!

I look forward to meeting participants and signing copies of Nature's Ambassador at Mass Audubon's 2017 Birders Meeting this weekend on t...

ART AND FEAR

I recently attended a small, intimate gathering of artists and writers, all members of the National League of American Pen Women, to disc...

"...a Pied Piper of a book..."

When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to inclu...

FATE

"Why are you doing a biography on an archaeologist?" Some people have been curious about the origin of my interest in writing about Dr. G...

WRITING AGAIN

January 2, 2017 was the day I would begin writing again. For two years I have been conducting research for an authorized biography on Dr...

Family

Christmas was just two weeks ago, so I'll slip in a last Christmas 2016 story... I was preparing for the family gathering at Rob and Kimb...

Writers, T'is the Season

When I was teaching English Composition at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, I adapted "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and on the...

Guest post by artist Kathryn Kleekamp: A Fragile Cape Cod

I am delighted to provide readers an opportunity to savor the reflections and significant talent of Kathryn Kleekamp, a friend and artist...

November Too*

Do not dismiss November as a throw-away month, a collection of weeks that precedes and follows holidays or you may miss the revelatio...

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