Happy Poetry Friday! I share a draft of an original poem at the end of this post, along with the link to this week's Poetry Friday roun...

  You may remember my big summer news:   After a particularly nasty fall, I underwent surgery to replace a very sad hip.   I couldn’t take m...

 Has this ever happened to you? You've invested hours, days, weeks of your precious reading time in the Novel of the Season. The writing...

  O nce upon a time, I had the good fortune to learn from the late  and oh, so wise award-winning author and teacher Richard Peck. When it...

HOW DO YOU APPROACH ENDINGS? I once walked a family member through the process of writing a eulogy. They were grief stricken by the loss but...

Howdy, Campers and Happy Poetry Friday! (The link to PF is below) Our topic this round is HOW DO YOU APPROACH ENDINGS ? How do we know the l...