Priscilla Long

Priscilla Long’s latest book is Dancing with the Muse in Old Age. She is also the author of two books of poetry, a collection of essays, and the how-to guides Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators and The Writer’s Portable Mentor.

Geology My Way

Morton Gneiss is a Minnesota rock, not a rock star

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 24, 2012

Let It Shine

Light, from the Southwest’s high desert to the surface of Mars

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 17, 2012

My Kingdom for a Horse

Homo sapiens seeks equine companionship for work and pleasure

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 10, 2012

The Lay of the Land

Through the eons with plate tectonics

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday October 3, 2012

They Work Hard for their Honey

So you better treat them right

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 26, 2012

Wake to Sleep

What happens in the brain when we drift off to dreamland

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 19, 2012

Venus

As our twin turns

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 12, 2012

Here, Kitty Kitty

For I will consider my cats Frisky, Buster, Snuffy, etc.

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday September 5, 2012

Remembering Steve

A tribute to my friend Stephen Jay Gould

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday August 22, 2012

Waste Not

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday August 15, 2012

We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

By Priscilla Long | Thursday June 1, 2023
A picture of the moon

Ten Sights (I Wish I’d Seen)

By Priscilla Long | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Becoming a Poet

By Priscilla Long | Monday August 29, 2016

How Chemistry Became Biology

By Priscilla Long | Monday December 7, 2015

What Killed My Sister?

By Priscilla Long | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Remembering Steve

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday July 3, 2013

Till We Meet Again

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday June 26, 2013

How Mauve Was Her Garment

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday June 19, 2013

Saturn

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday June 12, 2013

Darwin’s Finches

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday June 5, 2013

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