Author Archive: Margaret Ann Spence
The Internet of Trees – or How Plants Gave Me a Novel
The Internet of Trees – or How Plants Gave Me a Novel By Margaret Ann Spence If you are reading this, you are on the internet. We are connecting. In the short thirty years since the internet was invented, we take it for granted. Such an extraordinary explosion of knowledge has occurred because we can […]
Why The Hippies Are Topical
Why the Hippies are Topical: How Writing About a Historical Time Can Make a Writer Ask— Can We Really Make a Better World? By Margaret Ann Spence The sour dough bread is rising. I’ve captured the yeast myself, a painstaking process. The yoghurt sits fermenting. What am I, a hippie? No. But I have always […]
Pantry Skills- What Baking Has In Common With Writing
Years ago, in my heady youth, I reconnected with a guy I’d worked with on the student newspaper. We went away for a weekend. In those pre-airbnb days, it must have been a rented house, or maybe a borrowed one, but in any case, it had minimal facilities. When we arrived, after dark, miles from […]
How Childhood Reading Shapes Identity
Little Women turned me into a writer. I identified with Meg, but longed to be Jo. In Concord, Massachusetts, visitors to the Orchard House can see the tiny desk on which Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868. Visitors to the Alcott family home also learn that Bronson Alcott, an idealist and progressive teacher, […]
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