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- Aug 27, 2021
- 1 min
Blue Abstraction -- Flash Fiction
In New York where my parents met and wooed and wed, the artists slashed convention with strokes of bright greens and blues invaded by a...
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- Sep 9, 2020
- 1 min
Words I Love
Our leadership now is egregious. The xenophobic spirit that infiltrates our society is like a noxious gas. Where are the beloved...
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- Aug 14, 2020
- 2 min
A Taste of Normal
We’re in our sixth month of the pandemic and I’ve gotten really used to my own company. I’m in my house most of the time, packing and...
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- Jul 14, 2020
- 2 min
Woodrow Wilson Unmasked
Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, took office in 1913, which is the same year that my historical novel THE BLUE HOUR...
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- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Why I haven’t cut my hair since November, 2016*
A few days after the election of a smarmy conman to the presidency of the United States of America, I looked in the mirror and realized...
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- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
Indoctrinating students on the power of the vote
Last week the president tweeted that college professors (all members of the radical left apparently) were indoctrinating students, not...
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- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
Toppling the Past
A couple of days ago, someone said to me, “Isn’t it awful? Those people tearing down statues?” I responded, “I don’t give a rat’s ass...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
If you hate abortions, don’t get rid of contraception!
If you hate abortion, don’t get rid of contraception! The impetus for my historical novel, The Blue Hour, was the disappearance of a...
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- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
A Memoir in Essays
Stealing: Life in America (Review) by Michelle Cacho-Negrete Adelaide Books. 203 pages. Michelle Cacho-Negrete’s personal narratives of a...
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- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
A good character description is worth a thousand pictures!
I’m always on the lookout for a great character description. Usually, it’s a fictional description, but, while reading a profile by Taffy...
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- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Another Time in Between
The English translation of The Time in Between by Maria Duenas came out in 2011. But I only came across it recently when I had the chance...
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- Jan 31, 2020
- 4 min
Ghosts in the Music
A few weeks after my mother died in 2011, I went to my massage therapist for a much needed massage. While she would work, instrumental...
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- Dec 7, 2019
- 6 min
Me: A Horrible Person
“The more you know of any aspect, the better you can handle it. This goes for yourself too. When you know everything that is to know, it...
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- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
One Year Ago Today
One year ago today I took my ex-husband out of a skilled nursing facility and back to his house. I’d spent the the previous week scouring...
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- Nov 17, 2019
- 1 min
Two Necks, One Rope
Once, quite early in our relationship, we came across a story about a couple who committed suicide in an unusual manner. They took the...
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- Nov 17, 2019
- 2 min
Premonition
Hurricane Florence made landfall on Sept. 14, 2018. It was a big, scary storm and about 40 people in North Carolina died as a result. I...
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- Nov 16, 2019
- 2 min
Mid-April Journal Entry
It’s a Wednesday morning in the middle of April. I am still living a life that has nothing to do with my dreams or aspirations and...
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- Nov 10, 2019
- 3 min
The Phone Call
I suppose every memoir contains a chapter that could be called “The Phone Call.” It is that ringtone that signals the end of the world as...
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- Nov 6, 2019
- 7 min
Taking Care of My Ex
January, 2019 “You are a saint,” more than one woman has said to me. “I would never take care of my ex.” I am not a saint. A saint takes...
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- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Writers Write
The last year has been a rough one. My ex-husband had a stroke and I wound up moving back in with him and taking care of him until he...
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