Retrospective of My Second Year

​It has officially been two full years since Mary and I first started Briarbook Lane, and once again a lot of things have happened, both of the planned and unplanned variety. We acquired a beautiful logo for Briarbook Lane, and have done a few things to spruce...

A Retrospective of the Past Year

A year ago, Mary and I began Briarbook Lane, and I began to post here on my little corner of the site. It’s been a real roller-coaster of a year; a lot happening in the world, and a lot happening with me, personally. What did this first year of blogging here...

Favorite 5’s: a list post

I’ve come up with a schedule for my posts. There may be weeks I mix it up if there is a holiday or something else to share, or a collaborative theme with Liz like we did with the poetry month posts, but this is what you can generally expect.First Thursday:...

Poetry: Solitude and Solace

National Poetry Month 2020 Official Poster This national poetry month finds us in a world of social distancing, but also at a time when it is easier than ever to reach out to each other from our separate places of physical isolation and interconnect. We are...

Welcome to My Musings

I last kept a blog (The Library of Liz) over ten years ago, when I was still an undergraduate at the University of Utah, and would never have imagined the path that my life would take. All the same, there are some things that have not changed despite the years and all...