I Fell Off The Dock

Posted on Jan 15, 2019 in News | 0 comments I fell off the dock at twelve minutes after five. I know it was twelve minutes after five because I had just looked at my watch to see if it was time to go up to the house. I always make dinner so it’s ready at six because Len, who I married twenty-two years ago, likes dinner on the table at six every day. I must have tripped somehow out at the end of the pier where the water is only three...
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Waddya Know?

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 in News | 1 comment Here’s a fine, standard piece of writing advice. Every writer has heard it. “Write what you know.” But what does it really mean? In Jann Martel’s The Life Of Pi, a boy is shipwrecked, loses his entire family and the zoo animals they’re transporting to Canada, and he ends up stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger. Is that what the author “knew?” Knowing doesn’t necessarily mean...
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Dear Friends and Family,

Posted on Sep 19, 2017 in News | 0 comments As you may know, the release date for my new novel, The Other New Girl is September 26th. I am humbled and thrilled by the positive reviews and reception it has received so far. Many of you have already supported me in my writing and I hope you will help me again by spreading the word. With the countdown officially on, here are 5 easy ways you can help me spread the word about The Other New...
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Where To Write

Posted on Aug 31, 2017 in News | 0 comments Facing my computer screen, tacked to a wall are two photos. One is of E.B. White wearing glasses, sitting on a rough wooden bench with an even rougher slab of a wooden table in front of him, on which sits a typewriter with a piece of paper sticking up from its roller (younger people will have to google that). His hair is white, he’s dressed in what looks like loose khakis and a shirt with...
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The Faith Within

Posted on Aug 26, 2017 in News | 0 comments According to published reports, in 2016 out of the U.S. population of three hundred twenty-four million one hundred eighteen thousand seven hundred eighty-seven people a mere seventy-six thousand three hundred sixty were Quakers. That’s like siphoning a gallon of water out of the Atlantic Ocean. Also according to reports in the news we are a seriously divided country. By economics, religion,...
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I’m Under A Bizarre Wildlife Attack (or the raccoons here came from MIT)

Posted on Aug 26, 2017 in News | 0 comments For years it was squirrels. Now don’t argue with me here. They are not cute. They are nasty tree rats that will eat anything and everything … anywhere. They will get into your attic or crawl spaces, poop on your rafters, carry in acorns and nest above where you sleep. In the middle of the night they’ll start leaping around somewhere over your bed and you’ll have a heart...
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