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Life of a working writer means you write your morning pages in your work boots because you're going to be playing in the dirt for the rest of the day. Happy Wednesday.
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My down time since returning to work: knitting and computer at the kitchen table. I am a writer but I'm still among the heroic throes of the 9-5ers, the work force that jams up traffic at seven in the morning and five in the evening. I say heroic bec

Rain quenches the thirst of a writer's soul. Rain has always come with tender, sweet footsteps and softened the edges of a wild day. Spring has never been my favorite, but when the rain comes and washes the often stark and contrasted colors of spring

There isn't much green grass here in April, but my kitty, Boots, and I take to wandering about as much as we can in the sunshine. Book writing is sometimes given up for spring and green grass and kitties. I think 'kitty' is one of the most adorable w

As winter turns to spring, I often feel my creativity dwindling. I'm noticing a pattern in the last three years of being a seasonal worker. My slumbering body is awakening with the earth in the spring and the sunshine is pulling me from desk to door

Of course a writer must have some sustenance when devouring the creative stages with all the gusto of a bull in a china shop, she must have something she can waylay while a lapse in judgement occurs or a pressing question needs answering. No self-res