Just when I’m pretty sure I’m writing into the void. Just when I’m flinching at the echoing silence that greets each new post, I hear from an old friend: I need to thank you for recommending One Small Step Can Change Your Life. It’s about small steps, but it’s had a huge impact on me. I’ve […]
These last few years, Thanksgiving has been hard for me, and Christmas, too. In the first 30 or so years of my adult life, those holidays meant traveling to the farm, where my parents lived, out the coast highway from Chehalis, Washington. As I’ve said here before, Mom was born in that house, and I […]
Ever since I returned home from Ireland, my daily life has contrived to present a series of insults that, in turn, have contrived to sabotage my writing life. I had a very bad headache, probably sinus, that sent me to bed for a few days. Then we had some interesting drama around our daughters (you […]
But bad stuff does happen. Wednesday evening, for instance, while my 18-year-old and I were on our way to a homework date, another car slammed into ours in a parking lot. The driver wasn’t able to explain why she was zipping along so fast. Our car had to be towed, and we were lucky it […]