2018-08-06 17:38
It doesn’t have to bethe blue iris, it could beweeds in a vacant lot, or a fewsmall stones;justpay attention,then patcha few words together and don’t tryto make them elaborate, t… Read More
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Lucy Crowe's Nest is the blog of Lucy Crowe, author of the novel "Sugar Man's Daughter". It features short stories, writer's resources, and more!
2018-05-02 20:17
Can tractors have souls? Absurd question, of course, but here - if God should deign to equip any piece of man’s machinery with a hereafter, the recipient would be an Internat… Read More
2018-03-14 02:12
Today I drank from the spring cup - an action which sounds mundane enough, but, let me assure you, has real repercussions in my personal life. Choosing the spring cup when the outdoor temp i… Read More
2018-01-30 18:57
Hope is the color of Springtime, the shimmery, lacy green lighting the hillside all the way to the top.Does anyone choose their room color according to season? She sat on the floor in the mi… Read More
2017-12-24 17:52
J.M.W. TurnerOh, Christmas!A thousand memories fisted together into a big tinsel ball that smells of evergreen, cinnamon, and life. Marvel the Mustang! I must’ve been, what? Four or fi… Read More
2017-11-18 23:59
At by Malanda ArtI was driving home with Keith Whitley playing on my iPod, and he had reached his last song – his best – before I realized October had passed. Tell Lorrie I… Read More
2017-10-16 18:38
Artwork by Lizzy RaineyOctober came on gilded wings in the night, and by morning the air was clear and sweet as champagne, another summer laid to dusty death.A year gone by, then, since last… Read More
2017-09-23 03:33
We greet Friday having had enough sleep – which may sound mundane to some, but in the EMS life, this is a rare moment indeed. Rare, too, for the air to have such a clear, gor… Read More
2017-07-31 22:35
Photography by Erebos Photographic StudiosThunder wakens me the first time – deep conga roll just pass the whine of our window air; the clouds are torn and purple, the leaves on the hi… Read More
2017-06-21 19:06
From the desk of Gothika, Dark Lord of the Grimalkins aka Kitty-Boy:“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.”Hmm . . . lovely, but no… Read More
2017-05-24 16:59
It is, at last, the time of year when every window - each little glass pane – in the house at the bottom of the hill is filled with green. Jeweled, sun-dappled – emerald, jade, a… Read More
2017-04-12 00:28
Art by Michak MrazThe rain came in the night, just a whisper on the roof - if you weren’t listening you might miss it, so accustomed had your ears become to the breath of winter.But he… Read More
2017-03-25 19:27
“Here is the thing,” she said out loud to the cat as she set the ceramic snowmen in the china cupboard. “A lot of time has gone by.”Four months, to be exact.She folde… Read More
2017-03-01 00:08
Sunday Morning at Valley Forge Park-Pat O' Driscoll Fine Art“Lancaster, Pennsylvania!” I tug my seat belt in order to sit forward and squint through the lowering gloom at the hig… Read More
2017-01-29 00:54
Setting creates a mood.She sat in the new McDonald's on Main and actually typed that sentence in order to better think about it.Setting is mega-important to the reader and, ipso facto… Read More
2017-01-01 07:00
On the evening of December 31st, she tucked 2016 beneath her arm and gingerly traversed the basement stairs, dodging a pair of roller blades and a saggy salt bag that had not yet made its wa… Read More
2016-12-21 23:37
Four thirty pm and three bitter degrees in downtown Chicago, the wind cutting in from the Lake and the sky giving itself over to a glassy color like pearls. The trees are outlined in white t… Read More
2016-11-28 17:11
From the desk of Gothika, Dark Lord of the Grimalkins aka Kitty-Boy “It was a dark and stormy night.” … Read More
2016-11-07 17:17
All Soul’s Night creeps upon us in new darkness, the sun snuffed before six thirty as effectively as calloused fingers pinching a faltering flame.Light, then; we’re seeking light… Read More
2016-10-04 18:47
October soared homeward in the middle of the night, landing in her yard somewhere before daybreak. By dawn the spreading oaks in the cemetery had taken on a crimson tinge and the air had bec… Read More
2016-09-11 16:47
The great boatlift of 9/11 became the largest sea evacuation in history. Larger than the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II where 339,000 British and French soldiers were rescued over the… Read More
2016-09-04 22:42
“Big News, guys.” The Nice Writer Lady gathers her characters on the front porch, her anxious gaze darting from one pensive face to the next. It is August, and the light has an a… Read More
2016-07-08 20:45
"This Is What It Looks Like To Protect Each Other"Here in America, we’re pretty sure the sky is falling.A lot of us have quit watching the news, but the fall-out leaks onto us anyway… Read More
2016-06-11 05:00
It’s June!Who remembers the opening to “Dandelion Wine”, Douglas lying in bed on the first day of summer? Wake up , world! He exhaled and the streetlights went out, blinked… Read More
2016-05-28 22:05
Seventy-seven weathered, moss streaked steps to the cemetery. Ivy wraps the wrought iron railing and the hum of bees is a far-off, languid sound - mosquito whine is closer, intimate as the t… Read More
2016-05-20 14:52
The word of the day is luminous.Oooh, this is a peach, yes?Writers collect words the way your grandma hoarded knick-knacks, squeezing every inch of them for meaning, beauty and usability. He… Read More
2016-04-25 03:16
Easter makes me itch, always has. When I was little, it was the damned dress, all lace and unforgiving elastic around my chubby middle. Hair ribbons! Pulling the skin taut across the skull… Read More
2016-04-23 20:12
As of this month, I have entered my upcoming novel “Maypops in September” in several competitions, the results of which should be so exciting! Of course – and perhaps inev… Read More
2016-02-21 03:57
Art by SSC-ArtHarper Lee died today, and that has me a lot more bummed than I would like to be.So I pour a cup of coffee and I take it with me to sit on the stoop at Fire Station B, where a… Read More
2016-01-27 01:41
I received the most incredible one star review of my novel the other day. It dropped onto my virtual doorstep early in the morning and lay there like a steamy bag of poo until I finally gath… Read More
2015-07-23 21:33
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square… Read More
2015-07-04 17:25
Art by Henri PeterWe put our flag away the weekend after Memorial Day, and here we are, unfurling it again on this gorgeous lavender evening, twilight hour thick with lightning bugs and the… Read More
2015-07-04 17:16
Mothers are the weavers. As indispensable as water, sunlight or oxygen. Their role is at once concrete and nebulous - undefined, and yet, somewhere, surely, carved in stone.Here, I think, is… Read More
2015-07-04 17:15
In my dream, it is a perfect October day. A sky hard and blue as ceramic, the whole world on fire with the crimson death of summer, harvest in full swing; it is the sort of day that a child… Read More
2015-06-02 18:43
Maypop Flower Inspired Art by Liz9923Today I typed the word “Loblolly” at the top of a page and took a deep breath. A big, lung-expanding breath like the one the captain of the s… Read More
2015-04-04 02:33
My childhood Easters were all about dressing up, which, for me, made it the less-than-favorite holiday. I was more of a Scout Finch kid, comfortable in over-alls and bare feet; a dress, any… Read More
2015-03-24 05:34
February in Illinois is a splendid and confounding mix, comprised of blizzards and silvery rain showers, northers howling over the prairie and tentative crocus tips peering up through the sn… Read More
2015-01-31 01:04
© Irene Owens“I’m a writer, what’s your superpower?” The tee shirt advertisement screams at me from my Facebook page and I can’t click away from it quickly… Read More
2015-01-15 20:57
©Mary Engelbreit StudiosWhy does the New Year begin in January?Google blames Julius Caesar, which makes perfect sense to me, because, well, Julius didn’t live in Illinois, did he?… Read More
2014-12-23 09:44
I’ve been allergic to white Christmas trees for years. They make me itchy, make my nose sting and my eyes tear up.Maybe it’s the lack of smell. Or the sparkly paint on the stiff… Read More
2014-12-17 20:15
So you want a career in EMS? Both of the rural stations where I work have been hiring. You’ll be called for an interview a week or two after you turn in an app, and then set down in ou… Read More
2014-10-31 02:50
Art by Julie Jamison-LewisI’m pretty sure time stands still on October 31st.Every Halloween, all of our lives, frozen still in amber. Here we are as little children, grinning behind th… Read More
2014-10-27 18:04
“Oh wow, that is magic.”Just the moon. Set unmoving in a broad and blameless early morning sky; it is perhaps a little red. So we huddle in the parking lot outside our fire stati… Read More
2014-09-30 23:12
Firefighting is rife with hard and fast rules. And even though, at any given episode unpredictability can fast become the norm, these rules remain in place – guiding stars, if you will… Read More
2014-09-11 18:37
Lately it occurs to me that twenty years in fire/EMS might be enough. Because . . . well, because here she is. &n&hell…Read More
2014-08-26 00:01
August, don’t leave us yet!It is true that I normally don’t feel that way about this month, but the weather has been kind to us this year, with beautiful sun-soaked afternoons an… Read More
2014-07-24 19:24
How is it that the choicest moments in life – the best of the best – are always and inevitably accompanied by the wail, “It’s going so fast!”? Kids shooting up… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The call comes in around six a.m. because that’s when old people tend to get up. Rain or shine, winter or summer, sick or retired – they like to see the sun rise. I’d been… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’ve always been a bit startled by the concept of a God who demands an accounting at the end of the day. The notion of “Where did you err?” is a frightening one, and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Baby Boomers worry a lot about the next generation, don’t we? Funny kids, always on their magic phones, never in church. Chock full of news about spirituality and hashtags, but they do… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Summer is for the child in us. You know her – the giggling, golden imp who sleeps until ten, wakes up with her hair in a tangle and doesn’t look back on her way to the lake. Bare… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“I’m so thrilled you wrote a book!” she says to me. “Do you remember how you used to read me your stories every day on the bus?”Actually, I had forgotten. But s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Rob Thomas’s cover of “Blood and Fire” is nothing short of breathtaking - best listened to on the way to work, when dawn is just… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today’s blog takes us to the fictional location of Mount Bloom Fire Station, where I’m interviewing a handful of my central characters. It occurs to me, belatedly, that these fol… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles. The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without… Read More
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