Thought I’d post a bit of my work-in-progress, Looking-Glass Girl. In this scene, my protagonist, Alice, first meets Suzanne Manet, wife of Edouard Manet.
Looking-Glass Girl: Alice Finds Herself in 1871
Mom’s Gift
My mom has always been all about stories. When I was little, she read and read to me: Winnie the Pooh, Ramona the Pest,
Wordless Times
I lost my father in July. Then in August, my husband underwent a high-risk surgery. And then last week, I had surgery to determine whether I have cancer.
Question For My Father, Who Lives Alone
Dad had a birthday today. “I never thought I’d live to 82,” he said.
“Dad,” I told him,
The Sweetness in Fearless Writing
“Some days I feel the ground shifting beneath me, the revelations bursting like fireworks over my head,” I wrote a few days into inviting the bogeyman of Dad’s mental illness onto my blog.
Living with Bogeymen
The day after I put my secret blog post together about the Children of Suicide, I got emotional backlash. I had thought I could write about other people’s trauma,
Children of Suicide Club
Taken at Seattle “Out of the Darkness” Suicide Prevention Walk for AFSP
The secret blog entry in the link below was a tentative step toward the chasm.
OMG! Girl Saves Baby Cougars with Hot Celebrity Lookalike While Trying to Understand the Nature of Death and Find Spiritual Truth
“I am going to say this from right here, right now! The Synopsis of The Summer of No Regrets is SO misleading. It leads a reader to believe that it is a frilly novel with no depth,
Review of FLYAWAY by Helen Landalf
Finding Old Poems I
It’s funny how a poem can capture a particular moment, so that when you read it years later that whole period of life comes back.