Author Archives: riverwriter

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

Bitsa

NaPoWriMo 12: My wife’s uncle was a chef who was fond of assembling meals that he called “bitsa”, because it consisted of bitsa this and bitsa that — whatever was leftover or available. Continue reading

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Apple Time

NaPoWriMo 11: Predictable, of course, a visit up the hill to Marlin Orchard as the leaves turn. Even in Spring it appeals. Continue reading

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Talisman

NaPoWriMo 10: Our weaknesses are usually self propelled. Consider a scratched coin. Continue reading

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