I like writing human-interest feature stories. No, that’s not quite right. I love writing features. The first chance I ever had to write feature articles was for the small, weekly newspaper based…
So, awhile back I had the idea of starting a comfort shawl project that would allow myself and others to encourage women engaged in the hard work of transforming themselves and…
I have just spent what turned out to be my entire morning (after my requisite cup of coffee), at the water's edge on an Adirondack chair with my feet in the lake. As an outsider looking in, it seemed as if there was peace and serenity all around me.
Procrastination. As a writer, I've built elaborate scaffolds of procrastination, making work that is really an avoidance of the work of novel-writing. I've built a website. I started a blog. I…
This morning, I grabbed my usual cup of coffee and my current read, and headed out to the balcony. This is how I start my days, with coffee and books and…
HAPPINESS In the late summer of 2018, I arrived in San Diego and settled with my husband into a furnished apartment on K Street in the Gaslamp District. After living my…
Dear Reader: Every second Friday of the month, San Diego Writers, Ink hosts a Dime Stories open mic event. I love these readings. What better way to spend a relaxing Friday…
I’ve been thinking about success a lot these days--what it means, what happens if you fail, what happens if you don’t fail. Is the journey really the point, or are we…
So this happened. One week after arriving in San Diego, I jumped right in to the literary scene and signed up to read at the 2nd Friday Dime Stories open mic…