by Terra Osterling | Jul 24, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, How I got "here", Inspiration, Storytelling
Our backyard garden is 12 feet by 16 feet, dug out about 6 years ago. That season we harvested enough pickling cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes to put up over a dozen jars of sweet pickles, plus equal batches of tomatoes and salsa. Our little patch of earth on our...
by Terra Osterling | Jul 10, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, How I got "here", Letterpress
My last Letterpress project did not turn out as I had hoped. My Alphabet set in Onyx, plus numbers and symbols, was, I decided, about as exciting as an eye test. My classmates’ Alphabets are a funky arrangement of large wood type in “Condensed Gothic,” a clever poem...
by Terra Osterling | Jun 26, 2011 | Adirondacks, Business of Freelance Writing, Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Inspiration, Motivation, Publishing, Storytelling, Writing
Validation is powerful. Late last year, in the infancy of SuddenWriteTurn and during my growing realization that writing is my calling, The Husband came across an announcement on a local news website. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation was...
by Terra Osterling | Jun 19, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Finding the artist in me, How I got "here", Letterpress, Storytelling
My mother was once told by a school evaluator that her kindergartner had a “slight fine-motor disability;” I have never been able to color inside the lines, I am not to be trusted with dispensing superglue, and it takes me a few tries to put my house key in the lock....
by Terra Osterling | May 29, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Letterpress, Writing
Mechanical Precision My left hand is numb. I am not used to gripping a composing stick for three hours. My kid-sized hand does not curl around it comfortably, so the metal edge digs into the webbing where my thumb meets my hand. But this is how it’s done – you...
by Terra Osterling | May 22, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Letterpress
I had this strange dream where everything was both upside down and backwards, but somehow I still knew what was going on even if I couldn’t begin to explain it. Wait a minute…that wasn’t a dream, that was Letterpress class last week! Put it into words In the computer...
