Having completed two novels, an accomplishment so amazing to me that I still don’t quite understand how it happened, I must have gotten cocky. For decades, my cousins and I have repeated our mantra, “Someone should really write a novel about this family!” That eventually became an exhortation aimed directly at me, “You really should write […]
“477 Days. 521 Mass Shootings. Zero Action From Congress.” BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD OCT. 2, 2017 “June 12 2016 A gunman opens fire in an Orlando nightclub, leaving 49 dead and many wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history – until Sunday.” This lead editorial in The New York Times consists […]
Have you ever done the writing exercise where one person writes a sentence, then hands it to the next person, who adds another sentence, and so on around the circle until you have a few pages of writing? A couple of weeks ago I started writing paragraphs all of which began with “My name is […]
Mysterious Addiction There is no other way to say it: I have become an addict. Not just to reading mystery novels, but to writing them. So addicted, in fact, that I can barely wait a day after finishing one book before beginning another. I have written four books in less than a year — […]
“They say Old Weezie’s been reading palms out of her run-down shack for a hundred years or more and, although I have to question the accuracy of that hundred years, still Old Weezie sure looks older than dirt, which was one of my grandmother’s favorite sayings.” And that was as far as I got […]
Two novels completed. Not one viable idea for a next book. I find I can’t simply take a break. I am now no longer capable of not writing. And so, the question arises. What in-between writing can I find this time to keep my hand in, to keep my brain fresh, to operate […]
(Golden Heart, 2016, watercolor on paper, 15 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches) If you go to the website for the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, then click “Exhibitions,” you will find that from October 26 through December 9 2017 there will be an exhibit of the small-format watercolors that Joseph Raffael has been painting for the […]
Martha L. Thompson’s book, Giving Paws: Having a Service Dog for a Hidden Disability, is a book about one woman’s discovery of her own soul as it comes, again and again, to a choice between struggle and surrender. There are a good many important things to write about Thompson’s book, and this review intends […]
From Amazon’s Patricia Allison Page: The first novel co-authored by Alison Daniels and Dean Robertson writing as Patricia Allison The second novel, by Alison Daniels, writing as Patricia Allison The third novel, by Dean Robertson writing as Patricia Allison The fourth novel by Alison Daniels writing as Patricia Allison Coming in 2018 […]
Riding the Ring of Years The Full Text She stepped outside her door She stepped outside her door morning paper early, into a world made private by the sleepers inside, her heart’s hope chest locked away airtight. stepped into an apple green April day when the clear air stopped her, made her […]
