About Upriver Readings

Called Upriver Readings since I live near a river, and what’s here is my take on pieces I read, including:

• Reactions, comments, and writing exercises based on The Story Club postings by George Saunders.

• Reactions and comments inspired by Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American .

• Other pieces of writing in various stages of completion.

My icons are the little mouse offering up the purple pebble, an image I made in cut paper, based on an illustration from Lio Lionni’s Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse:

And the perplexed observer, clipart I found online, and took the liberty of using in cropped and recolored forms:

My instant reactions to items I hear about are on my twitter account:

https://twitter.com/crocusnorth