My fondest Christmas memory In September, 2012, my brother and I helped move my mother, age 91, to her own apartment in a retirement home in Rochester, just five minutes from me. A month or so later, she suffered compression fractures in her spine. COPD and a heart condition then took a toll. Before we knew it, Thelma had a pacemaker, was wheelchair bound and on oxygen. Still of sound mind, … [Read more...]
The Book That Almost Wasn’t – guest post by Allison Maruska
Please welcome author Allison Maruska to my blog! Playing favorites... for a reason: Almost two weeks ago, my most recent novel The Seventh Seed was released to as much fanfare as I could muster. I hosted a Facebook launch party (where Linda contributed as a guest author and was FABULOUS), wrote blog posts, created ads, set up giveaways, and watched great review after great review roll … [Read more...]
Almost Home: a Memoir by Hilary Harper
It began with a child's curiosity: While innocently snooping through her mother’s bedroom at age twelve, Hilary Harper discovered her parents had adopted her. Insatiably curious, she continued to pry, devouring the letters between her adoptive mother and her sister-in-law, whose younger sister was “in trouble. She is having a baby and needs help.” Hilary learned her birth mother was this … [Read more...]
You are forever changed – sexual misconduct
If you've ever been shown a penis... Jennifer Wright asked Twitter "Hey women: retweet if you've ever been shown a penis you did not want or expect to see" on November 9th, 2017. There are 177,00 retweets and counting. The responses are staggering. "The first time I was in second grade." "I was in a park, holding my young son." "The first time this happened to me I was 6. In a K-Mart toy … [Read more...]
Writing the second book – distractions
It's damning when a fellow writer asks you what you're working on, especially when the best you can say is you're getting really good at procrastinating. That "thing" "Is what they say really true -- that writing the second book is harder than the first?" a friend (and poet) asked me. Yes, it is. But not for the reasons you might suppose (at least for me). Many writers feel writing the second … [Read more...]
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