I know my blog numbers. Few readers, few comments. It would be kind to call my numbers low. I know…
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I did it. I published my second Hike with Me book, in print and electronic versions. (The pages are separate…
Continue ReadingThe Six Stages of Alien Abduction
1. DenialAs your eyes slowly adjust to the bright lights and you find you can’t move, of course you’re going…
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I’m not a serious athlete. I have no goals to become a professional athlete, but like many other people who…
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Dean Wesley Smith calls the summer the time of great forgetting, when writers tend to put their writing to the…
Continue ReadingTrying a New Formula
When I took a literature class last semester, I had some concern about writing papers. I knew how to write…
Continue Reading100 Rejections: A Goal
I haven’t made a habit of submitting my work to paying markets. I’ve done it a few times, and gathered…
Continue ReadingPut ‘Em Up, Papa
It isn’t that I don’t like literature. Wait. Maybe it is that I don’t like literature. A few years ago,…
Continue ReadingGo for Book
Why look! I made a book. Lovely. Squeeeeeeeeeee! Ahem, yes, so there it is. Proof! Actually, it is the proof…
Continue ReadingThe Proof
The proof of my book arrived in the mail Monday. My husband offered to bring it to me at work,…
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