Where is your happy place? Most likely, your answer depends on how old you are and where you are in your life right now. Our happy places change as we change. Or maybe not. It would be fascinating to find out. Anyway, recently I was thinking about a place that was special to me more… Continue reading Happy Place
Category: Life as I know it
Taken again
A long time ago, I wrote about chasing people. It was right after I discovered a close cousin/friend cast me and all her family and life aside to run away from home and start a new life. Now, I understand that desire. Many times in my past, I wanted to move away from everything and… Continue reading Taken again
Safety in Obscurity
***I wrote this post over a year ago but I never published it. I was hurt and angry about my first one-star rating. I'm sharing it now to see what you think and how you feel about the criticism and rejection all writers face.*** I got my first one-star rating today. The dreaded one star.… Continue reading Safety in Obscurity
Accepting Unwanted Change
A year ago, I developed an eye disorder that I know now is called Binocular Vision Dysfunction. How did I develop it? What caused it? I still don't know. But it's a part of my life now. Funny how life can change so fast. An unwanted change. Last February, Brian (my husband) and I were… Continue reading Accepting Unwanted Change
Living in the light
Death has been a theme in my writing for a long time. I didn't realize I wrote about death until recently when a friend pointed it out. It's true. My fiction is filled with all kinds of death themes, but they're not necessarily morbid. Death is a part of life for all of us, but… Continue reading Living in the light
I’m not Joan Wilder
Have I made a mistake with my writing? Should I have paid more attention to what readers want? Should I have followed a formula and used tropes? I'm not a genre-specific author. The one genre I loved when I was younger was romance. I read novels in other genres, but wanted to be a… Continue reading I’m not Joan Wilder
‘night, Mother
I loved my literature and writing classes in college. I was a literature student, so of course I did! But more than that, my teachers and professors introduced me to works I normally wouldn't have discovered and read. One memorable work is 'night, Mother, a pulitzer winning play in the early eighties by Marsha Norman.… Continue reading ‘night, Mother
Writing Poetry with Maria
I was looking through old notebooks and journals, and I came across an old black spiral notebook filled with old writing stuff. There were ideas for children's stories (for a class I was taking), random journal entries and the best thing ever--poems I wrote with my old coworker Maria. 🙂 Why would I… Continue reading Writing Poetry with Maria
Career musts
Are you a journal writer? Do you keep them and read them from time to time? Or do they end up in the garbage or a firepit? I've been a journal writer since I was young--like under ten years old young. My first ones were the standard little diaries with a lock my mom gave… Continue reading Career musts
Eternally Together
I was looking forward to meeting the nice old couple that lived across the street from our new home on South 5th Street. If you read my last two posts, you know that my husband and I moved from Ellicott City, Maryland to western Pennsylvania last Spring. We bought a… Continue reading Eternally Together
The Second Chance Writer 