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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 06/10/2026

Staying with friends in Charlevoix, Canada. Beautiful place in autumn: cold air, warm people.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 02/03/2026

My daughter sent this just now from Lapland. The only light here is from the moon.

Two images of deep snow and trees lit by a full moon.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 26/10/2025

So glad I was able to see the beautiful show by Shanna McNair in the Emery Center at its closing, and to hear her read from her book SOUL RETRIEVAL. Shanna was a BFA student years ago who helped shape the program, and shape me as a writing teacher.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 27/09/2025

Here is the town of Broto, Spain, from our hotel.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 08/09/2025

Rustica is a beautiful new journal from central rural Maine. I'm happy to have my story "The Night It Happened" in it.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 11/07/2025

Along with three other writers, I will give a short reading from my work at the Bangor Beer Company in Bangor, Maine this Sunday, July 13th, at noon. Join us!

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 03/06/2025

I haven’t posted a photo for a while. This is a block from where I live in Wilton, Maine. Lovely day after days of rain.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 03/05/2025

I bought myself a gift today, inspired by a Jill Lepore piece in The New Yorker. A box of little Black Books.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 23/02/2025

Another of Pt. Reyes for peace. Estero trail.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 18/02/2025

I’m trying to beware of the eel but it’s hard to do.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 15/11/2024

Hey look--My husband has a new book out! A collection of essays about Maine, published in various places. I'm a totally unbiased reader and I say it's great.

Book cover for "The Art of the Myth" by Michael D. Burke with brief description.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 30/10/2024

I wrote this novel. Marketing, right? Which I am 100% lousy at. But it's a good book and more people should read it. If you were too young to remember pussy hats and pussy grabbing in 2016, here it is. Also betrayal, friendship, sex, and love. #Books#Writers#WritingCommunity#Reading#Bookish #Fiction

Abstract image on book, title A Symmetry of Husbands by Patricia O'Donnell

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 12/10/2024

The pond tonight at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 10/10/2024

Cloth sauna sculptures in a Helsinki museum.

Three cloth sculptures: two women and a child

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 05/10/2024

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading."

British pound note with quote from Jane Austen.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 29/09/2024

Pretty nice here in Rabac, Croatia on a sunny September morning.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 26/09/2024

Maybe you can guess where I was today.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 22/09/2024

Tres Cime mountains hike in northern Italy today. Frightening at times, exhausting, inspiring.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 21/09/2024

I’ll try out this Bluesky video thing. Taken today on Mt. Piana, Dolomites.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 06/09/2024

A drink to welcome you to Bluesky.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 29/08/2024

If you're ever on Peaks Island, Maine, and see this sign, knock on the door and come in to see the wonderful paintings of Norma Johnson.

House with a sign that reads Nordik Gallery

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 13/07/2024

After dinner drove home to this view of Wilson Pond in Wilton, Maine.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 05/04/2024

Edmund Spenser poem on the inside of a chocolate wrapper. Doubly tasty.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 31/03/2024

Here's the drawing the writer Nicholson Baker did of my husband, Michael Burke.

Drawing of Michael Burke by Nicholson Baker

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 30/12/2023

New York last night from the Empire State Building. I went with two beautiful and interesting young teenage girls who are my granddaughters. I can't post a photo of them because everyone would fall in love with them.

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 04/11/2023

From a survivor of the massacre

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Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org · 04/11/2023

My book's coming out this week, yay! It's a novel about life-long friendships and marriage and betrayal and love. Buy it from the publisher (it's also available on Amazon): www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p441/a...