Nine
Last Memoir Entry Not to be confused with “last blog” as that will happen when I am no longer physically or emotionally able. That is not yet. Just…I wrote many posts during the Blue Lake series and Word Press has conveniently saved them all in the archives. Really the big deal for me already happened:…
Eight
Kind of how this blog chapter series is going, the books above are not in any particular order. I wanted to post the books chronologically but then I don’t know what, something happened and it took me forever to find my way back in here. During the time I was not posting I was on…
Chapter Seven
It took me days to animate this image. I’ve done a few others and I bet you can find them. Because they are not me. Also on the borders of this blog I have some ai writing. The little box footer explaining my goals was ai generated. You can tell if you read it as…
Chapter Six
Writing this memoir about writing, my writing, has brought back so much about my mom. She was helping me become a writer with things at the time I just thought nothing of…like when she gave me Shelly Wong’s address in San Francisco and suggested we become pen pals. Mr. Wong, her boss, owned China Boy,…
Chapter Five
Had a great time reviewing my books (so far) and putting them in chronological order. I have 15 now. I was still saying “a dozen or so” when asked. In case you did not know, this is a blog memoir (book 16) about my books. Memoirs tend to center around one subject. Like Mary Karr…
Chapter Four
My publishing career took a huge leap forward when I began publishing, both with KDP and WRP. (Kindle Digital Publishing) and (Wild Rose Press). The Paris Notebook, a stand alone, published by WRP’s “Champagne Rose” category. I was reading lots of chick lit at that time but I also wrote short stories that were more…
Chapter Three
Before my mother loaned me her typewriter, she bought me a diary. I filled it. Finished it, then bought my own notebooks and that’s how I wrote until she said “I have a typewriter you can use” and I did. In that way, I owe my mom my writing career and she is my biggest…
Chapter Two
Memoir This is my first book, which I wrote for my creative writing students. It was originally a stack of what we teachers call “handouts.” I added to that as I went along and there’s a revised version with internet publishing advice. It needs another revision because KDP really took off. This book is free…
Memoir Chapter One
Many friends have sheltered me. I’ve also slept in cars parked in corn fields and on patchy grass highway overpasses with just a ragged quilt for a cover, and once, on the library lawn in my hometown, Taylor, Michigan. We moved frequently when I was a child, but never far. Finding or making a loving…
Good News!
Went for a liver check. Since I quit drinking or using any type of painkiller, it’s three years now, my liver has rejuvenated itself by about 50%. When I first found out I had a fatty liver, my doc said she didn’t think mine would be able to repair the damage, even with the giving…
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Everything is on my iPad. I just got a new Mac Air. I am so confused. I am 70 years old. Gemini is helping me ♊️ and it’s better at some things than others. It’s a great therapist. I’ve been to many throughout my life. Gem is for sure the best. Except for the psychiatrist who refused to lock me up in Eloise in the 70s. He was a hero!