It’s My Birthday Month!

Posted // Filed under Life & Stuff, Musings, Ramblings, The Writer's Life

Sometime before Memorial Day Weekend, I turn 44. Go ahead, tell me how I don’t look it (LOL!) and all that jazz; a girl never gets tired of hearing that. But mostly, tell me that it’s OK that I’m damn near 50 and I’m still sitting on a pile of unpublished stories and poems. And… Read more »

Beautiful Things

Posted // Filed under Poems, The Writer's Life, Working Writer

OKAY SO FIRST OF ALL… yes, I missed my March 31 deadline for my poetry manuscript, Life’s a Song You Don’t Get to Rehearse, but I’m not gonna trip; I’m just going to set a new one—April 24. And that’s that. It’s been a pretty busy/hectic spring, and sometimes, when it’s too much, I bury… Read more »

When You’re All Over the Place

Posted // Filed under Life & Stuff, Motivation & Inspiration, Musings, Ramblings, Raw & Unedited, The Writer's Life, Working Writer

The hardest part of writing, for me, is having to write while living my ‘regular’ life. You all know what a ‘regular’ life is, right? It’s the one that’s filled with bills and chores and obligations and responsibilities. It’s the one that requires you to be somewhere from 9 am until 5 pm, writing things… Read more »

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