by Diane Becker
Many thanks to Emma Alonze for narrating, and Andy Becker for recording these very short stories / poems, written and published in anthologies / online lit mags between 2009-2012. New stuff finally on its way – a long and convoluted journey #betweenhereandthere. More shortly!
Categories: Poetry, Short Fiction • Tags: audioshortstories
by Diane Becker
Categories: Culture, Photography • Tags: blackandwhitephotography, blackpoplartree, hometocorvids
by Diane Becker
Days pass like shadows – especially when it’s dark, winter or foggy. It’s been almost a year since I last posted anything here. For a while I’d contemplated giving up this blog. The majority of people seem happy to share personal information online, but as an introvert, I’ve always felt uncomfortable about it. I go through phases. When there’s a lot going on in my life, I embrace periods of radio silence when – and I’m sorry – I can’t reply to emails, even to […]
Categories: Journal
by Diane Becker
The past couple of years I’ve been posting #throughthewindow images to Instagram. Most were taken where I live – up on the hill in the spring, summer and autumn, and from a first floor apartment window in a town nearby during the winter. None of the views are in any way remarkable, but I take a lot of photographs and it became a habit of sorts. Like just now, sat by the window and distracted by the sky, my eyes glued to the hillside opposite, I grab my […]
Categories: Journal • Tags: sky, through the window
by Diane Becker
Spent spring and summer on the hill and many hot afternoons in the ‘van catching up with friends and family. Also caught Lorrie Moore and Joshua Ferris reading at the Hay Festival which was brilliant! This time here (our third summer) I’ve read a LOT: Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams; Richard Ford, Canada; Annie Proulx’s Bird Cloud; Paul Theroux on The Old Patagonian Express; Bruce Chatwin On The Black Hill; Robert MacFarlane’s The Old Ways; Kjell Askildsen, Selected Stories; Kyle Minor, In The Devil’s […]
Categories: Journal, Short Fiction, What I'm reading • Tags: Short Fiction, short story, Writing
by Diane Becker
Categories: Journal, Photography • Tags: everyday, hedge, photograph, sky, through the window
