We arrived in Antigua on a sunny, Sunday afternoon. Because I had just flown in, I didn’t have any Guatemalan currency, waiting to exchange money at a bank where the rate is better. But I had my trusty credit card to pay for dinner. We dined in a lovely restaurant, surrounded by a jungle of […]
Read MoreAdvertising is the price of being boring, Rob Eager of Wildfire Marketing posted last week. If you are not boring you get all kinds of free word of mouth advertising. The rest of us have to pay dearly for such advertising. We are fascinated by people who live exciting lives, using and abusing drugs, living […]
Read MoreOnce upon a time there were three sizes of caps to place on the legs of metal chairs. The first one was too small, so I took them back to Lowe’s and got the only other size there. This one was too large. So I went to the local ACO Hardware store only to find […]
Read MoreWriting Process Blog Tour Thank you to Niki Tulk for inviting me to participate in this blog tour. Niki is a writer and mother, living in New York. Her blog, About Shadows, Wings and Other Things, can be found at http://nikitulk.wordpress.com. Q – How does your work differ from others of its genre? A –I’m […]
Read More(Me and my birthday flowers. I was going to take my first “selfie” only to realize you can’t do that with a flip-phone so I enlisted the aid of my husband.) As I turn fifty-eight today, I am asking myself, “Am I “that” person? Do you remember that person from your college years […]
Read More“If you went into a government lab to design a program to instill anxiety and neurosis, you couldn’t do much better” John Scazi wrote about the writing process. So that explains it? That explains this free floating fear, this muted terror. It’s not fear for the future, fear that at fifty-seven I have already out-lived […]
Read MoreI’ve always loved wooden objects. I don’t know where this love comes from. I can’t necessarily attribute it to the fact that Jesus was a carpenter for this love preceded my knowledge of Jesus, though later I did make the association between wood, carpentry and Jesus. Perhaps it was the hardwood floors in the hallway […]
Read More“Does knowing that God might frustrate your plans bring you comfort?” Sometimes a question can be worth a thousand words. This question, asked by Jeanelle Reider in her book, The One Voice that Matters, speaks volumes about God’s will and following God’s will. It is better than twenty treatises on the subject. It states simply […]
Read MoreWe are in the graduation season, followed by the marriage month, June. Throughout the nation, graduating seniors are being given words of wisdom at commencement ceremonies, as one stage of their life ends and they prepare for the next one. They are being told to hold on to their dreams, to dream big, make a […]
Read MoreComplete this sentence: a bad day writing is . . . For me, a bad day writing is better than a good day doing pretty much anything else. I love the writing process. Even those days when I’m stuck, nothing flows from my pen, are good. On those days I might put my pen and […]
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