Last weekend I hit the road—and the water—for the Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference. I have been to a bazillion conferences in my day: they were events for teachers, or direct mail copywriters, or bloggers or marketers, depending on what field I was in at the moment. They all blur together in my mind. The thought…
A couple of weeks ago, I found a new blog. New to me—but not to lots of other folks. It is the brainchild of Andrea Hurst of Andrea Hurst & Associates and supported by the talented writer and blogger Katie Flanagan. What I love about Andrea’s blog is that it melds the literary agent’s view…
I’m not a big fan of rant blog posts. They get old fast, especially when every blogger on the block is doing them. But problematic punctuation? Well, that pushes all my buttons. What can I say? I’m a writer. Three months ago, I wondered who the first person was who put an apostrophe in where…
Last summer I broke my wrist in a bizarre gardening accident. I look back on that event now with gratitude and affection. It was June 30, 2011. The day my crazy life stopped long enough so, between the ice packs and painkillers, I had time to ponder why I am on this planet. I mean,…
When I was a teacher, one of the worst things a kid could have, the thing that would hold her back throughout life and beyond, was low self-concept. It was whispered about children, as though they would never get any farther than flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s because they had, you know: a low self-concept Of…
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