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May.27.2012
Just about a year ago – on Mother’s Day and near my last birthday  – I achieved a huge goal. My memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On, A Mother’s Memoir of Living with her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide, was published. In it I tell the steps I took in living with the...
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Feb.04.2012
Time to revisit my 2012 writing resolutions (posted on January 1, 2012) and report how I’ve been doing.First for the things I’ve accomplished. I participated in the January River of Stones project, writing a small stone every day of the month. I finished reading Doreen Cox’ ...
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Jan.04.2012
Since I retired from my day job as a proposal manager at an aerospace company in April 2010, I have been transforming my life slowly but surely. I got a book contract almost immediately and I spent the next six months busily revising my book. My memoir Leaving the Hall Light On was published on...
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Jan.03.2012
It’s time to get back to my writing life again. I know this list looks daunting but it’s not much more than I’ve already been doing for the last six months or so. But I must say that writing this all down makes it seem more ambitious.Hopefully, this list will encourage my writing readers to join me...
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Nov.03.2011
  This week has been very productive. I’ve sent off my second piece for the PsychAlive website, and I got word from the editor that it’s ready to go live. The piece is called “Comforting Those Who Grieve.” I’m still awaiting word from my Savvy Over 60 editor about when my November piece for...
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Aug.19.2011
  Here’s a little run-down of what’s been happening in my life as a writer in the last few weeks. My second piece for Naturally Savvy went live this week,  http://www.naturallysavvy.com/inspiration-and-motivation/fitness-over-60-and-countingan interview about a woman I’ve known for lots...