Blog Posts

  • One of those words I’ll gladly appropriate

    I love words that have unique sounds (and no, that doesn’t mean I dislike homophones, I just really love words that are fun to say).  I have a whole collection of them, in fact, but this one turned up in my inbox this morning and I decided I had to share. Definition and quotes courtesy…

  • Ravel(ing)

    Above my car, forty seabirds wheel and arc in time with Ravel’s swooping Barque sur l’Ocean as if they too can hear it pouring from my radio into the frigid winter sky. It is the most freedom I have ever felt sitting at a stoplight. (2/12/10)

  • Autumn Love

    Utter Love by Meg Winikates December, 2005 I am in utter-love With autumn light In love with the air That burns each golden Leaf to crisply glowing shards Of jagged sunlight. I am in blue-deep love With the belly laugh of Autumn wind In love with the tickling Gusts of sharp amusement Teasing hair and…

  • Happy National Day on Writing

    Yes, technically November is NaNoWriMo, which continues to look like a bad idea when one is working full time and taking two grad school classes.  However, for those of us with the spirit but also the time crunch, today is the first ever National Day on Writing, hosted by NCTE (Nat’l Council for Teachers of…

  • Origins

    Origins By Meg Winikates, April 2009 I love to guess the origins of myths, say, ‘man stands under tree in thunderstorm,’ becomes ‘by the wild wrath of gods punished’ when lightning-struck, his grave unearthly warm. Or, perhaps, a wailing waterfall contains the tears of a heartbroken bride, kept from her love across a chasm caused…