by Abbe Rolnick | Mar 26, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
While spring approaches, I find myself still caught in winter. My body and mind have retreated into thoughtful repose. Cerebral with embedded worries from everyday concerns to that of worldly consequences. Politics and proclamations bombard the...
by Abbe Rolnick | Feb 26, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
I just returned from three weeks of roaming the streets of Italy. In truth I meandered in the past: relived the danger, power, and pain of the gladiators at the Coliseum. I felt for the first time the weight and influence of Vatican City, a world filled with...
by Abbe Rolnick | Jan 29, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations January 2025 Nothing is Everything It’s taken a while for me to pull together a newsletter in January for lack of anything new to say. Clouds and rain fill the first week of this new year and I’m awash with the effort . Thankfully, words come...
by Abbe Rolnick | Dec 18, 2024 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations: Storyboard of Crazy Thoughts After releasing my new novel, The Underpainting, to the world ( yes, a bookstore in Germany bought it as well as another one in England) my mind is free to wander. When I don’t have a plotline or clarity on my next...
by Abbe Rolnick | Sep 25, 2024 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations September 2024 Desire- the birds and the bees and the language of love. On my daily walks through the residential areas in Burien, I meet fellow walkers with their dogs, ones who need to get their 10,000 steps in, or the owners of the...