Category: Personal

Writing (& Not Writing) In The Time Of Corona

At first, writers and authors sent out a collective, knowing sigh: “Oh, yes, we know what quarantine is all about.”

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Thumbs Up For Thanksgiving: Why I Love This Holiday

I was going to write a lengthier blog this week. I was going to title it A Tale of Two Brits.

I intended to write about the superb Fiona Hill, the former Brit (now U.S. citizen) and former top White House Russia adviser who testified last week in the impeachment hearing against the occupant of the Oval office. Continue reading “Thumbs Up For Thanksgiving: Why I Love This Holiday”

I Won! It Won’t Happen Again

The Washington Nationals — and I — had a good week last week. We both won in sports events that were “mind-bending, odds-shattering, pundit-shaming and impossibly thrilling.”

So, okay, the quote above comes from The Washington Post and describes the Nationals’ triumph over the Houston Astros in the World Series final last Wednesday. But it could just as easily describe my own win in the third match of a new singles tennis season.

As faithful readers of this blog may have read a couple of weeks ago, I decided to prove I’m totally insane by signing up (again) for a singles tennis tournament. (Last season, I lost every match. This season, I lost my first two matches.)

This time, I signed up because I’m treading water while waiting for my literary agent to spring my revised, edited, re-revised, and re-titled novel on publishers all over North America. Continue reading “I Won! It Won’t Happen Again”

4 Great Home Design Innovations For Writers (And Others)

I was dreading returning to a condo that’s been under renovation for the last five months. For one, my room/office was not renovated.

So, you guessed it: Every single moveable item from the other rooms was crammed into my tiny writing space.

My workspace is still cluttered after days of sorting, cleaning and repositioning stuff. I initially thought about posting a photo of the clutter, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.  Not a good environment for writing at all!

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What Do You Do With Old, Abandoned Cemeteries?

There’s something spooky about old, abandoned cemeteries — which makes them perfect subjects of conversation around this time of year at Halloween. I wasn’t intentionally looking for one (either an old, abandoned cemetery, or a subject of conversation) a couple of weeks ago when I stumbled upon some new activity going on in the one pictured above. Continue reading “What Do You Do With Old, Abandoned Cemeteries?”