on November 10, 2006
This is a political post that isn’t. I just had to comment on the election. Not who won. That’s almost incidental. The fact that so many people came out to vote. Now, you have to understand I’m an child of the 60’s, when we were all involved. When the vote was the most important thing… Read More
on November 3, 2006
Okay, I just had to say this. I just saw where yet another author put on hisher blog the rules of writing. And I think of the years I struggled to consider myself an author, because I didn’t obey any of the rules that other people–who knew they were right–laid down. Oh, I could write…. Read More
on October 7, 2006
Back in 1991, when my daughter was eight and my son eleven, my family got to go to Ireland. Since it was my children’s first trip there, I wanted it to be special. I wanted to stay in special places. After much research(half the fun of travel for me), I stumbled across a castle in… Read More
on October 6, 2006
I just looked at the date on my last post and said, “No, there must be some missing. I couldn’t possibly be quiet for this long.” Evidently, I could. I didn’t mean to be so quiet for so long. But, you know, life got in the way. I’m caught in what is affectionately referred to… Read More
on July 3, 2006
Well, it’s fourth of July weekend, and if it weren’t about a hundred degrees out, I’d be at a county fair looking at 4H exhibits. But I’m a delicate flower, so I’m inside working on revisions on the Miss Fortunes book. The basic way I go about revisions is this. I get through the first… Read More
on June 28, 2006
There’s nothing like the end of a deadline. First, you feel as if you must be mistaken. You know that can’t be enough words, that the plot is wrong, the characters insipid, the theme obscure. Then you go back over the last chapter or two one or more time more just to make sure, and… Read More
on June 22, 2006
Deadline. Writing. Words. Many, many words. I go now……..
on June 21, 2006
I got to use the word concupiscent today. Okay, you might say. So what? So I’ve been wanting to use that word since I first read it in Wallace Steven’s poem “The Emperor of Ice Cream” in high school. The actual line is Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him… Read More
on June 10, 2006
I’m back on the road again. I spent the last four days in New York with Jenny Cruise and Anne Stuart wrestling “The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes” into shape. God bless Jen, she has the other side of my brain I’m missing. I’m so right brain wind whistles through the left side(that’s the linear, logic side… Read More
on May 17, 2006
So, here I am back home again after a lovely three weeks in Ireland and Scotland. I got to walk Edinburgh(did you know it’s all uphill?), ride a pony over the Gap of Dunloe in Ireland(I have to kiss my horsebackriding instructor full on the mouth for preparing me. Ponies trot, too. Badly. And considering… Read More