Kathy Brasby Blog
An easy writer’s tool
A smartphone is a gift to writers and here's another reason why. We had just finished a guitar-led round of folk songs for the local nursing home when Mary turned to me. "Remember the old cassette tape recorders? That sure would be helpful when we learn new songs. We...
Good dirt
When both of my sons were boys, I sometimes intercepted their beeline for the supper table to ask if they had washed their hands. Both of them would stare at their hands. "They look clean to me." Then they trudged to the sink for a nice scrub. They had spent the...
From the land
My father was a sugar beet farmer in Colorado, a fact which sculpts my thinking more now than it did when I was hoeing weeds in eternally-long fields as a teenager. Where once a farm was 80 or 160 acres, now they need to be well over 1000 acres or the farmer will go...
Why?
From Evernote: Why? Why do I write? It's a cliche to say, "because I can't not write." That's a true statement but I want to dig a little deeper. I write to create a world to explore and people to meet. I finished one novel only because I liked the main...
