In My Own Words
thoughts on writing, books and life
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Dressing for a Funeral
I purged my closet this summer. A big purge that included almost all of my long pants that aren’t sweats. I’ve just started replacing the winter stuff I need now…
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Hey, November!
Where are you going? Woo-eee! Well, it’s been a month and two days since I last wrote on this space I keep promising myself to visit weekly! If you missed…
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Special Announcement!
So much has happened since the release day in July and I haven’t been able to get it all written out yet! Life has been a whirlwind these past few…
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What Does One Wear for This?
When I was a little kid, I wore a lot of frilly dresses. The tail end of the 70s merged with the 80s, and fashion wasn’t what I worried about.…
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The Myth Maker – CH 2(in part)
A sneak peek! Thank you for following me on Substack! I’m excited to share these first sample pages of The Myth Maker. I hope this introduction to Detective Cassidy Cantwell…
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Where it all started
My little kid journey into becoming an author If you scroll back through this site far enough you’ll find a rambling post about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part IV – Making it to the end I spent an hour in hysterics after hanging up with the midwife. I didn’t think I would recover from being told no…
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I hope you fly
I realized I didn’t hit publish on the final installment of my personal pregnancy story last week and I will publish that one tomorrow. I’m moving this one forward because…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part III – Get over it, whiney girl… Somehow politicians and strangers are still arguing their right to control the bodies of anyone with a uterus. Often times those people…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy
Part II – Just do what you’re told After reading in court documents last week that three Red states have listed a reduction in teen pregnancy as a negative, I…