Sticky

Once I coached a woman who could not bring herself to write. She spoke of her longing and of abstract story concepts but she didn’t jot down a word no matter what I suggested. Then, at the end of a couple of months together, her heart broke. Literally. She disappeared and when we finally reconnected, […]

3:33 a.m.

Over the past few nights, I’ve woken up at exactly 3:33 a.m. with thoughts about my current novel-in-process running through my head. What if, I’ve been thinking… and following this curve of questioning has led me to discover an exciting twist (at least to me…) that I’m now incorporating into my new W.I.P. (work in […]

Humility

So, I wrote this thing. An entirely new thing for me. New genre; new(ish) form. I read it to my husband and he got teary. Praise ensued. I figured this masterpiece should be sent to my agent STAT. Sell it! I’d cry. Make me famous! Luckily, I did not listen to that impulsive voice (which […]

Faith

Lately I’ve been thinking about faith. It’s hard not to when this winter has built itself so tightly around us, with record-breaking cold (-36 with the wind chill today) and a lot of snow for our place in the world. The other night, though, I had a dream that the red-winged blackbirds had returned. I […]

Thaw

A few years ago, my shoulder froze. At the time, I said I’d write about it someday but I haven’t, not until now. Now, my other shoulder is acting up, the right one, the one that helps me move my dominant hand and that’s, you know, alarming. A frozen shoulder is a very strange thing. […]