I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am to have turned in the five lessons to Barclay Press tonight. I have loved writing them, it is the kind of work I am very good at and that refreshes me. At the same time, it was the kind of challenge that is the next […]
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I have come up with a new button for all authors: “Anything you say or do can be used in my next book!” My fellow authors at the “Oregon Authors” booth at the state fair really like the idea. We agree that we should come with a warning. My friend, Dolores, lives a ways away
This morning I woke up very early to the sunlight just beginning to seep it’s way through the thick cloud cover. Figuring I was awake for good, I thought the early morning would afford a nice opportunity to write in the quiet dawn. I gathered up my quilt, put on a cup of tea, and
A few months into learning to tap dance, I was lying on a friend’s couch where I was house sitting and asking God, “Why tap dancing of all things?” The answer he gave me that day inspired this story. It’s one of those stories that is true in the deeper sense, the kind where it
“Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Sarah and there still is.” This is the beginning to a story I wrote when I was eight. I found it tonight going through a packet of papers my mom gave me along with some other childhood relics. Like any childhood, there were some really
This post is in two parts, before and after: BEFORE: A woman I worked with years ago called me several weeks ago asking if I would come do a Valentine’s celebration poetry reading at the residential care facility where she works. I said I would be glad to and have been sitting at my desk
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People keep asking me if I’m writing more poetry. Not even the polite questions of “I know you enjoy it” but are more along the insisitent lines of “I love reading it, why aren’t you writing it? Get moving!” God has been saying the same exact thing, “I love reading it, why aren’t you writing
Here in the Northwest of the United States, we always dream of a white Christmas but it’s extremely rare we ever get one. Then, a week and a half before Christmas, the forecast for the coming days called for snow. Many were excited, we hardly ever get snow this early in the winter season! A
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I finally have my book website caught up- for the next two days anyway until January. Here is the November newsletter. Thankful This may sound funny but this afternoon I realized it is Thanksgiving, a time to give thanks. There is so much in my life to be grateful for. The first things that come
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I really wish I had better news to share with you tonight. Perhaps it is good news but I don’t fully see that right now. Most of what I see is a bad economy and me, really in need of a job. This afternoon I went to my manager to give her a project I
