Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Here I am, tempted to start blogging again, but there has been so much change, I don’t even know where to begin. And the change isn’t just technical — I have changed, too. I don’t devour books like I used to. Now, much of my free time is taken up [...]
Today I gave one of my students, Em, the first black olive she had ever eaten. She looked at it skeptically, poked it with her finger, and queried, “What is this?” She noticed her friends eating them off the tips of their fingers. She tried hers on for size and [...]
It finally dawned on me that the time to start acting like a professional writer isn’t after I am published, but before — because if I don’t start behaving like a professional I will likely never be published.  To that end I have a writing blog: Write-Lifting: Exercising Write.  You will [...]
1995 Left to right (in birth order): Jean, Jackie, Caryl, Harold, Charlene 2011 (Sixteen years later) Top left moving clockwise: Jackie, Charlene, Harold, Caryl. Jean couldn’t make it to the wedding. [...]
Dear Advertisers, the quickest way to lose my business is to send me unsolicited text messages. I have limited texting. When you send me those unwanted and unauthorized messages you are stealing from me. I don’t knowingly do business with thieves. [...]