Dear Published Author,
Please accept my sincere apologies for mocking the time it took for you to write your story so that one day I could bring it home in my shopping bag. As a novice novelist, I admit I may have read your bio and thought, “five years to write this? what the hell was [...]
Hi, everyone. Just back from a couple of crazy days and Chicago, where I was able to attend the services for my friend’s daughter. I was so glad I could be there. It was terribly sad but inspiring, especially to see the young friends who visited, and the crafts her schoolmates had made for the [...]
(I try to keep my posts fairly light, but tonight I’m sad and I can’t. Thanks for understanding.)
I am an optimist, a believer in the human spirit, and one who hopes that good things come to good people. Most days, I believe this in spite of what I see in the news or hear [...]
I’m not always the brightest bulb in the pack. Sometimes I need a few clues to catch on to what’s going on. Like last weekend when I saw the remains of a small furry animal in the mulch bed behind my house. It’s face was unrecognizable at the point I found it, but I noticed [...]
If you follow the stock market and economic indicators you know that the Fed has been holding back on interest rate cuts until it is satisfied that inflationary pressures are under control. Or, if you’re like me, a person who remembers only the beer and pizza supply and demand graph taught by a TA who [...]
I’m a single mom and, all things considered, I have it pretty darn good. Not all single mothers are so fortunate.
I volunteer for HEARTH, an organization dedicated to helping women and their children become self-sufficient again. These women are single moms, too, but prior to coming to HEARTH had landed in difficult (very often abusive) [...]
Being a mother has its rewards, but it also entails a lot of shit people don’t tell you about before you become a parent.
In fact, just a few moments ago T-Rex starts bawling upstairs, calling, “Mom, Mom! Come up here! I have diarrhea. Ew, ew, ew… Help meeeeeeeeee…”
I ignore him and keep typing.
More crying ensues. [...]
Last night I had a full-length date with the guy I met through speed dating. We went to dinner at a restaurant more appropriate for large families with screaming babies (next to our table) and fat bikers who like their wings and their chicks hot, hot, hot! (next to our table), but it served the [...]
I mentioned a while ago I was going to try another round of speed dating. This week I did. I wasn’t all that thrilled at the idea before the big event, but I told myself: Hey, you gotta stay in the game…and you paid $30, so don’t be a baby.
The event went fine, and I [...]
Writing update from yesterday:
I must be on a roll with this essay stuff. Tonight I came home to an email about the essay I submitted for an anthology of stories about single motherhood. (Yeah, I’m working the life situations here. What can I say? Write what you know.) The essay was rejected, but here’s the [...]
