Digging In

Reflections on a lifetime of back-breaking work (not mine)

I’m on a solo writing retreat this week, deep into the book. Every day I wake up, walk to my desk and look over the Rio Segre toward an old monastery that has stood here for nearly 1,000 years. Today the horses came out to graze in the field below. The book is going great, thanks for asking. But I now deeply understand why many authors, like so many par…