Halsted M. Bernard

Where I Write is a col­lec­tion of pho­tographs of fan­tasy and sci­ence fic­tion authors’ “cre­ative spaces”. I wish my cre­ative space were as mar­velous as some of these!
Where do you write? What do you like about it? What do you wish you could change?
(Thanks to my writ­ing group leader David for the link.)

Years ago, dur­ing a period of griev­ing, I sent this excerpt from Mary Oliver’s poem “In Black­wa­ter Woods” to my father:
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mor­tal;
to hold it
against your bones know­ing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Another period of …