A. E. Macdonald's Writing Life

A. E. Macdonald's Writing Life

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  • March 2, 2022

    The Green Box

    Our grandmother would pull out the green box where she kept the letters and photos she treasured.

  • November 11, 2021

    Interview with Tammy Pasterick

    Author of Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash Check out the Dead Darlings blog to read my interview with Tammy Pasterick on her debut novel that is set against the grim backdrop of Western Pennsylvania’s steel mills and coal mines, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash,  is a riveting story of immigrant grit and…

  • August 6, 2021

    The oregano and the white rose

    The oregano and the white rose

    When we bought the house, I could envision the trash heap at the back door of our new home transformed into an herb garden. It wasn’t the first thing I attacked when we bought the house, the front needed more love, but it was on my list. The spring I planned to attack the herb garden…

  • March 25, 2021

    The A Pin

    The A Pin

    My plans to research the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and to possibly learn more about what my grandfather did there were upended by the pandemic . . .

  • March 19, 2019

    An unexpected discovery

    On a day trip to Santa Fe, we discovered a Manhattan Project site.

  • March 11, 2019

    The Interview

    The summer I was 10, my father received some mysterious phone calls. Calls that have stuck with me.

  • February 4, 2019

    My next writing project

    I always knew that I would research my families involvement in the Manhattan Project and the 10th Mountain Division. Little did I know that it would become a large project.

  • October 9, 2017

    A trip to Scotland

    A trip to Scotland

    We traveled around the beautiful Isle of Skye, including the Clan Donald Centre and then on to Edinburg for some culture. Back at Glasgow Airport it seemed like we had just left, but it had been nine days.

  • February 20, 2017

    Cast of Characters: Weddings Are Murder

    Cast of Characters: Weddings Are Murder

    Weddings Are Murder, and Deadlines Are Murder, have a lot of characters. Hopefully this list will help to keep them straight.

  • January 22, 2017

    My Boston Story in 50 words

    Each Sunday the Boston Globe Ideas section has a 50 word story about Boston. After reading one recently, I remembered my own story that took place in Boston back in the 1970’s. The Boston Globe liked it, published it and here it is: link: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/11/12/words/F8VEZWNAveRXE0cv32G5JI/story.html There is, of course, more to the story. I really was…

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