The Next Big Thing
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 26, 2013 Thanks to my friend June Gillam for “tagging” me to promote The Next Big Thing! In June’s latest blog post she wrote about her upcoming [...]
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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 [...]