When John McPhee was talking to a reporter on NPR about a year ago, he said the whole idea of writing the new short pieces he’s been doing is “not to die.” I love this idea. As long as you keep writing you won’t die. My first novel Minato Sketches was just published this winter and soon, next fall, I’ll have another book coming out: If the Owl Calls, a mystery. I wrote the first draft of Minato Sketches in a flash sitting in a little apartment high above the canals of Tokyo, and If the Owl Calls took years. They both have kept me going. One is set in Japan, the other in Norway and Denmark. My life is so much richer because I was able to live in other places. Explore different landscapes and stories. I think for me I’d include as long as I keep gardening there’s a way to boost my writing luck. After all, in early March the daffodils are starting to bloom, the snowdrops survived the squirrels. Soon I’ll be able to plant early spring flowers, along with getting back to work on the book I’m writing now about Anna Caselberg, a New Zealand artist who kept on painting as long as she could.
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