COMING NOVEMBER 2025
An Eye for Joy:
Noticing the Good World Everywhere
by Peg Guilfoyle
Sea Crow Press
A book about the impulse to wonder, the practice of noticing, and the inclination toward joy. Despite its difficulties, the good world is everywhere, and its wonders can be seen and savored every day. Perfect for fans of Ross Gay…
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
Peg Guilfoyle
Writer and speaker Peg Guilfoyle’s newest book is An Eye for Joy: Noticing the Good World Everywhere (Sea Crow Press, November 2025). She is the originator and writer of the wide-ranging Motley Peg small essay series. Her The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories won a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Award. Other books cover regional history, genealogy and essays, and theater life.
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
NEW! Lady, Sing the Blues
Today’s joy, of the street music variety. An older woman rhythmically walking a pitbull down a park path this morning, a little strut to it, the dog pulling on the leash, her headphones over stocking cap (for it is October now), singing loudly with an accompanying...
Wittering On
As are many in these merry days, I am re-considering my relationship with the incessant yammering of the body politic. How to stay in proper balance with the information needed as a responsible citizen, of course, and how to stay somewhat shielded from the needlessly...
A Million Dollars in Aisle 4!
Before I saw this sign, I had started an essay about business branding versus business personality, about how it seems that the first can be soul-less and opportunistic, and the second full of human presence and quirkiness. I also was thinking about how individuals...