Musings

Growing a Sweet Potato 🍠 : The Hidden Work of Water💧

A grocery store sweet potato became an unexpected lesson in patience, hidden growth, and why water quietly shapes more of our lives than we realize.

Jul 9 • JM Blooms

Revisions ✏️ & a moment with Elizabeth Bishop

One of my favorite poets is Elizabeth Bishop and one of my favorite poems of hers is North Haven which she wrote to her friend (and fellow poet) Robert…

Jun 4 • JM Blooms

💦 Water is Running Out--

But We Still Act Like It Isn't

Apr 4 • JM Blooms

Hornets, Death, and the Perfect Trap 🐝

Thriller research takes me from backyard hornets to Swedish inheritance law trap...

Jan 9 • JM Blooms

Musings: Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls & We Are All Guilty Here

What I learned from reading with a writer’s eye...

Oct 6, 2025 • JM Blooms

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