A Novel Idea

It’s been a couple of weeks now since the confessional “Why James Chartrand Wears Underpants” showed up on my Facebook home page.  I found it disconcerting on three counts, none of them having a thing to do with thongs or French-cut jockeys. In this piece, the blogger admits to actually being a single mom who [...]

I’ve kept this greeting card photo and Graham Greene’s words on one desk or another for years. It sits, framed and nearby, as I work on my manuscripts.  When I was teaching, it graced my classroom desk, a reminder that any moment might be the transformative one when a shift in perception, a change in [...]

Thought for the Day:  Each time that you interact with another, and each time they with you, there is an exchange of energies which changes each of you forever.  What you give to them, and what you receive changes your energetic structure in that moment and theirs as well.  You may never know how you [...]

Recently, writer and Facebook friend Kerry Madden took a turn ruminating about the topic of rejection at “A Good Blog is Hard to Find.”  She describes spending a year revising her first novel for an enthusiastic agent who recommended an editor with whom she should work.  Kerry quit her job (you have my permission to [...]