Inspiration has been hard to come by lately while the country has more or less been on lockdown. The Covid-19 virus has taken its toll on the nation’s health and also my desire to create anything. The usual ways I find inspiration have failed and I have to wonder if…
I taught English for many years in what I sometimes refer to as my “old life.” I taught writing to 6th graders who were one-part children and five-parts hormonal whirlwinds. I taught writing to 11th graders who were in a lockdown facility who honestly could not care less about roads…
A hiatus is good for a writer’s soul every now and again, even if it is not great for her SEO. I’m at peace with that because I’m a whole person and not just a Google machine, pumping out post after post. I needed a chance to breathe for a…
My mentor teacher gave me some terrific advice that really didn’t have anything to do with teaching before I began my first year. It had to do with surviving which really, when it comes down to it, is what a new teacher needs to hear right before the first day…
Now that Tea and Madness is published and available I hear one of two predictable questions: What are you working on now? When is the next book coming out? Answering the first question is easy: laundry. I’m working on a whole lot of laundry. As far as the next book…
So it’s like this… I’ve had vertigo. I seriously had vertigo. The kind of sickness that people joke about. This is the sickness that, when I was a receptionist for a general contractor, we fired a guy for lying about having. He was really home watching soap operas in his…
