All About Me
Evidently I was born, although I do not remember the party. Stories indicate I had a pink carnation in the nursery that I greatly admired. I was one of the lucky ones. I have a wonderful family, filled with curiosity, acceptance and more than our fair share of laughter. We have
our tragedies and trials, but somehow, we usually manage to band together and face them with as much strength as possible.
My husband and I have been together for… let’s say we met in 1983. He is not only my companion and friend, but also the guardian of my imagination. I imagine I am not easy to live with on a regular basis, especially because I am not always present where my feet are, but I also tend to babble and talk to my characters as I am plotting. Yes, he deserves a medal.
For thirty years, I was the teacher in a classroom. It was an experience I would never give up and I hope I made a difference for those students, but underneath the apple crusted desk, I was always a writer, an observer and a student of human behavior and responses. My imagination tends to fly in a million directions and it takes a cage to keep it focused.
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It has been a long while since I did a blog post. Life can sometimes jump up and get you smack in the face, and no joke, it did that and more, knocking me out of my fictional world. It all started when I finally noticed that my editors excuses were piling up into the unbelievable category, surpassing the unlikely, and moving into she was either having a breakdown or…
Someone asked me recently if my writing was successful. I guess I had not thought of it that way, or from that angle, and it made me grin. I have been successful in getting a story from my head into a format I am proud for people to read. I was successful in finding an illustrator who could translate my words into images others could relate to. I have been…
It may be unpopular, but there are things I think we should refrain from celebrating. That includes the impeachment of our own president, the assassination of a monster, the death of an enemy. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the inclination, but celebrating seems wrong. It’s a bit like laughing when you witness an accident. I have some trouble with that too, often having to apologize for letting out a…
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