A Writer's Journey Never Ends
I had intended this post for Mother’s Day, which is just a couple of weeks away. But seeing there’s no time like the present and considering that waiting patiently isn’t one of my virtues, I decided to move it up I recently got together with some old church friends at one of their daughter’s baby…
I’ve had quite a few setbacks (who hasn’t?), some of my own design and some because, well…life. Often it takes the proverbial 20/20 hindsight to see the grace that has resulted. But there are times when it’s more immediate. My faith is an important foundation of my writing. It is my why. Not to proselytize…
I can’t think of a better way to pass the time on a drive – whether it be to the grocery store or down I95 – than listening to podcasts. Okay, maybe blasting “Uptown Funk” or “Born to Run” (I have eclectic taste in music) might, but that lasts maybe eight or nine minutes tops….
So I did the the thing…the one I talked about in my last post. I finished my last residency and submitted my final portfolio. I have a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing. This is my amazing and talented cohort on the night of the residency closing banquet where we had an unofficial graduation ceremony. A…
Hello all. It’s been a minute…or more. Lots of changes, lots of happenings, and new discoveries. For starters, I’m in my last couple of weeks of graduate school. By the end of this month, I hope to have earned my Master’s in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. So far it’s been a challenge and a…
Originally posted three years ago, I felt a need to resurrect it as a reminder to myself. I haven’t always lived up to this, but I have always believed in the power of faithful women who know and declare from whom that power comes. May we never forget, may we always declare…no matter the mission field. …
It has arrived. The season of hope and new beginnings. No, not that season. THIS season: Starting tomorrow, hope will once again spring eternal in baseball fans’ hearts. For some this could be the year their team wins it all, for others they’ll be happy with a .500 record. Either way, the…
The field is a glistening jewel that at once absorbs and radiates the hot white lights. There are so many, they should overwhelm anything in the beams’ paths. Instead those touched feed off them, are elevated. The players, clothed in bright colors that reflect their prowess, grab the rays and shoot them up and down…
Writers everywhere are in the final push of National Novel Writing Month. Some have devoted hours and days at a time, pouring their creative geniuses into their keyboards and up onto a screen. Others have stolen moments between jobs and families, and pulled words seemingly out of thin air as their stories emerge. Not me….
Hello and happy autumn! I know the season officially turned over a week ago, but there’s just something about October. So, I did a thing. I entered in a (very) short fiction writing contest, just for fun. It was a bit last minute — not even enough time for my critique partners to take a…