I’m a writer, but I’m also a homemaker, volunteer, and for a few weeks, a caregiver. Like you, I have meals to cook, laundry to fold, a vacuum cleaner that needs to be given a little exercise now and then. For the past two weeks I’ve added caregiving for a family member recovering from surgery … Read more
I love a good romantic comedy, or better yet, a romantic tear-jerker. Some of my favorites are An Affair to Remember, When Harry Met Sally, and my all time favorite…drumroll…The Notebook. The first time I saw The Notebook, based on a book by Nicolas Sparks, I made it almost all the way to the end … Read more
I love the title of a popular grammar book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It’s a book about the importance of punctuation. If you take the commas out, the words have an entirely different meaning. In the era of texting we have the same dilemma. Without a voice giving importance to certain words, the meaning can … Read more
I’ve been blogging about serious stuff lately, so now let’s have some fun. It’s election season and I will not talk about elected officials. Instead I want to talk about the “good old days” when I first went to work for a small city in Southern California, a city that shall remain nameless. I was … Read more
Last week I talked about imposter syndrome, the feeling some of us get when we’re successful, but don’t really think we deserve it. I also said there’s a cure, but it isn’t an easy one. Dr. Valerie Young, addressing three thousand writers at the Romance Writers of America convention in July, told us to first, … Read more