The Flint Girls Go To A Fire
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 26, 2013 One more poem as we near the end of National Poetry Month. I wrote this rather prosey poem about my Mother and her family twenty-something [...]
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Jun, 2013
How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Psychopath?
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 20, 2013 The other night in my writing group I got starting writing about a woman I worked with many years ago. I am convinced that this [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Writing Practice
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 12, 2013 I realized early on that if I was going to be a poet, a notoriously underpaid and underappreciated profession, then I would need a second [...]
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Jun, 2013
Welcome to April! It’s National Poetry Month!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 5, 2013 Welcome to April! It’s National Poetry Month! I started writing poetry nearly forty years ago, when I was in college. I started getting published when [...]
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Jun, 2013
Easter Musings
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 28, 2013 Earlier this week I read over the first draft of my latest novel that I wrote during National Novel Writing Month this past November. I [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Writing Life
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 21, 2013 I want to share some books that have enriched my writing over the years. I would recommend these books to all writers. And for teachers [...]
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Jun, 2013
Unexpected Blessings
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 15, 2013 In my novel, Welcome Stranger, an encounter with a stranger changes a woman’s life. Thinking back on my life as a writer, I was remembering [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Catholicism
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 11, 2013 I saw a cartoon recently of three mythical Catholic cardinals, each of a different ethnicity, happily discussing the upcoming conclave. The first says: “Perhaps the [...]