Armor Up and My Brothers
I’ve been realizing lately that I need to armor up. I need to work hard not to absorb or believe […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Year of the Friends
On Saturday, I had ten friends over for food, games, and fun. I had intended to have fourteen women over but […]
Possibilities
There is such excitement and hope in the moments of possibility. You put a manuscript in the mail and the […]
Dichotomies
Friday was a day of bad news and hopeful signs.From relatives: a house broken into for the second time in as […]
He Is My Man; Bob’s Southern Bistro; NaNoWriMo
While going through papers today, I found the following poem from a series that I add to from time to […]
All White People, All the Time
Artist, satirist and social commentator Damali Ayo has a website – www.rent-a-negro.com. When I first heard about it – I […]
Good, Better, Better…Not…Good, Badder, Badder
In the last few years, my mother told me two sayings that I wish she had given to me earlier in […]
Long Walks,discovering new places, pilfered pumpkins, and I do not ...
Today I went for a long walk down by Charles River Park. I went down there to check out a […]
Good News in my circle
When a phone rings in this time and place, we usually look at caller ID to see who it is rather […]
The music sweets me so
The music sweets me so is a line from a children’s book, The Dancing Granny, written by Ashley Bryant. That […]
I Say No, No, No
Saturday was a day of three nos. The first no is something that I didn’t say to friend who came […]
Breaking Bread with Friends
My husband and I had two couples over for dinner tonight. It is pouring rain outside yet they braved the […]
Money Luck
Yesterday I wrote and wrote and wrote so much that I never got around to adding to my blog.One of […]
Putting it Out There
Writing descriptions to query an editor or agent is as difficult, more perhaps as writing the work. This trying to […]
You think you’re going to write one thing – then ...
For the first time in a while, I find myself with time to write during the day time – time […]