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Marianne Williamson, Writing

The Mother of All Funks or Putting the Fun Back in DisFUNctional

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do. Oh, and I love comments.Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not… Continue reading The Mother of All Funks or Putting the Fun Back in DisFUNctional

Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

Something We Should Read Every Now and Then

Today, I leave the writing to one of the greatest writers in our history, Thomas Jefferson.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of… Continue reading Something We Should Read Every Now and Then

Bel Canto, Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There, Morgan Mussell, Young Adult

It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do. Oh, and I love comments.Some years ago when I first began writing seriously, I got together with a few others and we tried to start a critique group.… Continue reading It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Angry Management, Sacramento Book Review

A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog so you'll be counted as a reader. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.It’s been a bit of a gap since my last post, but I’ve been very busy with reading and writing and baseball.… Continue reading A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management

Audrey Wait, Highlights Founders Workshops, Lesley Kagen, Robin Benway, Whistling in the Dark

Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A year or so ago, my sister Tudy gave me a book she had enjoyed: Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen. I was transported to a small town… Continue reading Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review

High Five Magazine, Highlights Founders Workshops, Highlights Magazine, Peter Jacobi

A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.I spent four days last week in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania at a terrific workshop for writers of non-fiction. The wonderful people from Highlights Magazine run a series of workshops… Continue reading A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi

Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Pat Frank, Ray Bradbury, William Golding

Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do."A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at… Continue reading Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder

interview, Jame Richards, writer

Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire

If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A couple of posts ago, I reviewed a book I LOVE called Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards. If you haven’t read this… Continue reading Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire

Elizabeth Varadan, Jame Richards, Johnstown Flood, Sacramento Book Review

Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards — A Review

My friend Mitty – AKA Elizabeth Varadan of The Fourth Wish blog – wrote a review for the Sacramento Book Review of Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards. First, I must admit I have a kind of voyeuristic fascination with disasters. Secondly, I love historical fiction. Thirdly, if Mitty… Continue reading Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards — A Review