It's true what people say--one day you're living your life and doing fine and the next...well the next day, the next moment, can be life changing. Let's talk about writing first. What are you working on now? Are you excited about it? Are you working on more than one project? I have two fiction manuscripts… Continue reading This thing called life
Category: Life as I know it
Almost Fifty
Is this really it? Is this what life is like now for me who's less than a month from turning fifty years old? Fifty years old! And all I can think is--how the hell did that happen? Wasn't it just 1981 and my family moved to rural Beltsville? The library was an old trailer down… Continue reading Almost Fifty
Location, Location, Nope
When I was a kid, I longed for something different, something more than my suburban Maryland neighborhood gave me. I wanted to be at the beach in Ocean City, or in the desert in Tucson. I loved traveling because that meant I didn't have to be in the same boring places all the time--my house,… Continue reading Location, Location, Nope
Happy Place
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
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
The Second Chance Writer 