I should schedule days where I am a little girl and days of adulting.
My 2020 Curriculum: Adulting 101
What She Said, September 6: Madeleine L’Engle
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such repose do we find truth. – Madeleine L’Engle
What She Said, September 1: Beatrix Potter
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -Beatrix Potter
Depression, Medication, and Creativity
Right now, as I’m typing these words, I feel like I don’t have “it.” “It” is that elusive quality we need in order to write. We know it when we feel it, […]
Advice for Writers Getting the MFA
First of all: yes, your professors are right when they tell you it is very difficult to get a tenure track teaching job at a college or university. It is very, very […]
Diary of a Writer’s Week
March 23—I wake up in the middle of the night coughing (Florida=allergies), and get up to use the bathroom and get a drink of water. When I lie down again, I am […]
The Gloria Sirens 