Is The Answer Somewhere in this Library?
I’m here sitting in a glass pod at the Reference Library. I asked a librarian why they called them “pods” …
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Writers Write…Right????
I-am-a-writer…I-am-a-writer…I-am-a-writer. My mantra. I imagine Deepak Chopra’s deep, melodious, accented voice intoning it. I close my eyes. One deep breath, …
…going public at the Tik Talk Cafe…
Writing in public is … well … public. I wasn’t altogether sure I approved of that. Was I daft thinking …
Is the first draft the hardest?…or the second? or the third…maybe the fourteenth??
I wanted to believe her. But I knew she was wrong. I don’t often say that about Beth, my almost-always-infallible-about-words …
Eighteen Months! … But Who’s Counting?
Maybe I should have told Beth that, historically, April was not a very good month for me to start anything…end …
Getting to a Whiney, Reluctant “Sure…why not!
I knew Beth would be back. She didn’t give up that easily. I could picture my name on a post-it …
An Offer I Couldn’t…I Shouldn’t…Would I Refuse?
The call was from Beth McAuley. My friend and the whiz-bang, fabulous, relentless editor of my first book. In the …
Annie's Odyssey 