Nothing Gilded, Nothing Gained--Where Past Meets Present at Middlemay Farm

Turned Inside Out, Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac by Frank Wilkeson Unfortunately, when I was reenacting as research for my novels, I fell in with a group of women ...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/03/08/civil-war-book-review/

A Fiction Excerpt Featuring an Upstate New York Tradition By the Shores of Solon Pond follows the ups and downs of Waldo Potter, a young man trying to save his father’s farm during the Civil Wa...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/03/01/tapping-maple-trees/

By George Eliot Why did George Eliot have to make Silas Marner ugly? This may be a trivial thing to those of you who love this book, but for some reason it aggravated me. I love the name Silas an...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/02/22/classics-club-silas-marner/

A Tragic and Intense (but at times funny) Look at the Human Condition Are the shadows in your life demons? When Nikolai Stavrogin, the charismatic figure the story revolves around, confesses his ...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/02/16/devils-by-fyodor-dostoevsky/

Free for Kindle Download Today … my heart alternately ached and cheered for Waldo throughout the book. The hard life this young man endures and his capacity to cling to hope is inspiring. Amazo...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/02/12/by-the-shores-of-solon-pond-3/

Redemption Through Suffering For most of my life I thought I’d killed a baby rabbit. In my memory of it I chased it with a broom because I wanted to pet it. After fifty years of carrying this w...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/02/07/respecting-life-dostoevskys-devils/

Fiction, Nonfiction & the Beast of Productivity I realized a few days ago that I was doing it again. The relentless productivity monster inside of me was trying to rob me of the joy I feel when I...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/01/29/a-january-epiphany/

Blurred lines, clearing away debris, & finding the way. January in upstate New York exposes the bones of a place. There are no quivering leaves to blur the lines on our little forest path. The co...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/01/20/the-bare-bones-of-winter/

I hope the first few days of January have been good to you, my friends. Here at Middlemay Farm January is the time for clearing fallen branches from our path in our little woods, star gazing on f...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/01/11/winter-chores-on-solon-pond/

I once inherited a milky white Irish cottage in County Cork, Ireland. The overrun cottage garden nearly hid the stone fence covered with thickets of wild roses and honeysuckle. A glass greenhouse...

https://adrienne-morris.com/2024/01/04/the-lord-of-the-rings-finding-utopia/