So I had told myself I wouldn’t post personal updates. I want to give my readers more. But I hope you get something out of these stories. This post is about my blogging journey. How I’ve been on my face in the dirt this month, knocked over by hail and tree. How those nearest and… Read More My Pen and I: In Sickness and In Health, ‘Til Death Do Us Part
Like a diamond, the attribute of greatness has so many faces its definition remains elusive. Thus far I have traced greatness along the lines of tenacity. I could go on to look at heroes who cope with severe disabilities or who have scaled Everest and run ultras that are four times the distance of a… Read More Greatness, Finale: The Triumph of Forgiveness
I noticed something recently about the colors of the words that have streamed from my head these few months. The versicolor spectrum has many lighter, brighter hues than my writing has seen over the years. The lacuna of the last ten years where I was entirely occupied in the life of a wife and mother… Read More The Writing Process, Part 1: Color
I’ve always been drawn to African-American history. This novel I picked up four years ago repaints the slave culture of Louisiana that was new to me. Something struck me about the half-white, half-black protagonist. I wrote the author, a writing professor at the University of Riverside 20 minutes away. Here are the excerpts of my… Read More A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight [Thoughts on Women and Suffering]
A Holistic Journey 