When I arrived at my friend’s home for her holiday party, cars overflowed the driveway spilling onto the narrow road. I checked my pant’s pocket for my business cards. Just printed earlier that day, they had my website’s URL and Twitter name in white script on a deep-blue background. These Read more…
I am a writer. The first time I said those words aloud my brain screamed, “you are a fraud.” I attended the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s (NHWP) Writers’ Day. That was when conferences were live, not virtual. There I stood, surrounded by hundreds of authentic writers. They, with their memoirs, Read more…
Christina Keim, non-fiction author, and I will be reading from our latest manuscripts. I hope you will join us on Zoom: https://unh.zoom.us/j/97767955861 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at a fictional Dublin Pub.
As we approach the tenth anniversary of my first Toss the Typewriter post it is time to brush off the dust bunnies, toss out unused words, and redecorate my website. Like many others in this near-post-Covid-19 world, I have found simpler is easier and less is a multitude. That new-found Read more…
My last runaway was to Twin Mountain, NH, in November 2019, to work on my MFA Fiction thesis. That weekend, I brought along the book, When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life, by Squire D. Rushnell, which I read in the mornings to start my day. Read more…