Category: Writing

In 1951, when I was nine and my brother eight, our parents sold our house in Sidney, Ohio, auctioned off most of our belongings, and moved to Tarpon Springs, Florida. Leaving our numerous playmates and beloved neighbors was not easy. I remember…

After I retired, I joined a spirituality forum held at our local senior citizens’ center. A few members of the group gathered for a brown-bag lunch following our two-hour meeting. One day a new member joined us and during lunch…

On Friday evening, September 16, I enjoyed dinner with Alice, a very special influence in my life, her husband, Duane, and my childhood friend, Amy. Alice is the parish worker who recommended I go to college when I was an insecure high…

I am excited to share with you that my May 12 blog post, “Atonement” was selected to be included in the 2016 anthology, Real Women Write: Sharing Our Stories, Sharing Our Lives. This is one of my favorite blog posts…

“Seems to me that every memoir is about the wisdom we’ve gathered in the part of life we’re writing about.” ~Susan Tweit I have learned much about the writing of memoir from my friend, Susan Tweit. She is generous in…

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art, and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence when we…

For the first time since November 11, 2005, after my yearly nuclear stress test, last week my cardiologist told me that my heart has improved. Eleven years ago, after two weeks of chest pains, I submitted to my first such stress test. I was…

Silence is the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept. ~Henri Nouwen Recently, in a doctor’s office waiting room, three other women and I contently read books while the lone man sitting in front of me…

The Mastermind Group to which I belong met yesterday. Two of us write blogs and part of our goal is to increase our readership. At the end of our meeting, one member asked, “Why do you write a blog? What…

What a thrill it was to be informed that my essay, “Perfect Failure” tied for third place in Story Circle Network’s Life Writing Competition. To have one’s writing acknowledged by other writers is indeed an honor. LifeWriting Competition: 2015 Winners:…