Cooked Up by Brosch

This year, I'm going to spend 31 days writing about places.  In my profession, I talk about place-based writing quite a bit.  I frame it like this when I share:  We believe in the power of including spaces in the process of writing.  Place-based writing is the concept that the place where we write may influence our thinking, impacting the writer’s perspective, engagement, ownership, and/or purpose.  I'm really jazzed up, thinking about where I will spend time as a writer in 31 different spaces this month and how I can use each post to share a little slice of my day.  Today, my courtyard. In 2020, a house-flipper bought the house next door.  The previous owner had a very DIY kind of pond situation going on in the backyard.  The flipper intended to basically bury everything and sod the top.  My hubby interjected and asked if we could have all of the rocks, and they gladly gave them over. He turned a very muddy area of our yard into what we...