Meg Maker

Writer and artist, wine expert and educator, and founder of Terroir Review

Finch

Here, yet also not there

One hundred heads per year

A painterly illustration

White-breasted nuthatch perched in the snow

I draw inspiration from the river.

This worksheet helps writers develop a strong argument.

A tale starts in one place, finishes in another. What changed?

Dispatching obstacles is what keeps the reader reading.

I pluck one word from among its raucous company, and give it primacy that day.

The farm was going, almost gone. It was time for me to visit, although visiting at the dying end of the year would be a bitter, tender moment.

Equality for all.

Now the storm was all around us, flashing and crackling as great trunks of white fire boomed down into the driveway. Then—I smell smoke.