Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
What we talk about when we talk about love
How’s this for a trip down Memory Lane: It’s Valentine’s Day 1983. Just months earlier I met the man who would become my husband. Maybe not exactly a Tony and Maria West Side…
My Dog Is Ruining My Life
Well, we all know we’re talking tongue-in-cheek here . . . But just to entice you, here’s the beginning of my Indie Writers Deathmatch story — “Impossible,” says Gary. “Dogs are pals –…
The long and the short of it
Don’t have to be a writer to know we belong to a storytelling species. Conversation is just a prelude, the entry point to an anecdote begging to be shared. I’m not prone to…
The minor fall/the major lift
Ask a writer why she writes and she’s bound to say it has something to do with her love of the places reading has always taken her. Stories are what we live by….
One year ends/another begins
Barely a week into December and already my thoughts are turning to the New Year. Can’t say I feel its approach with a sense of the promise I was counting on. But a…
November 18th 2016
“The impulse to enter, with other humans, through language, into the order and disorder of the world, is poetic at its root as surely as it is political at its root.” — Adrienne…
