Happy September! Labor Day weekend is here and summer is over. Hope you have fun in store for you this holiday. My writing groups are resuming and I have manuscripts due. Summer has provided me with lots of time to play and socialize but I haven't been very diligent. So, I am taking a few weeks off--a staybbatical, so to speak. I'll be back September 23. In the meantime, I am glad to report my rejection streak has come to an end, with an acceptance yesterday (more … [Read more...]
Solace in So Many Words — new review and TV too
There’s some news about Solace in So Many Words. First, we got a new review on Goodreads. To celebrate its fifth year Weighed Words hosted a giveaway of Solace In So Many Words and sent five copies away to readers across the country. I always hope that such a giveaway will generate a little buzz and this time it did. A reader named Erin Hill received a copy, and in her review of Solace in So Many Words she writes: “I really enjoyed this collection. It's varied in the … [Read more...]
August days: My grandmother was a poet
I haven’t been posting a lot but I have been thinking about life events and the end of life. I got a little crabby the other day. Is it the weather? Midsummer blues? Aging? Just impatience and frustration on my part? That’s what has been on my mind lately. One of my siblings is moving and came across these printed cards. They are poems written by my grandmother Bertha L. Wade. She lived to be well into her nineties. Almost all her children (including my father) … [Read more...]
Reading T. C. Boyle, Ellen Bass, Donna Hilbert, Kathleen Kirk . . .
Good morning and happy July -- rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. I've been working on something, but it isn't finished yet. So I'll tell you what I've been reading. "The Fugitive," which is T. C. Boyle's story in the latest issue (July 4) issue of The New Yorker, and there's also a discussion with him on the ethics of disease in the Page-Turner column on the web. Ellen Bass has a poem ("The World Has Need of You") on June 25 The Writer's Almanac. Donna Hilbert has a poem … [Read more...]
The Almighty Dollar
I was raised a Catholic. I went to Catholic grade school and high school. But I am not really a Catholic now. I have trouble with organized religions, believing faith can be corrupted once it is institutionalized. I have some atheists in my family and I tend toward the rational myself. I look at my faith as a personal thing that I don’t care to discuss. But I do not put down believers or their churches. I accept that everyone is free to make that choice and believe what he or … [Read more...]
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