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Yesterday I received an email from Kaleidoscope magazine, asking me to videotape myself reading an excerpt from a short story they published for an event called Giving Tuesday! I know what Giving Tuesday is, but never expected I'd be invited to help promote it! Look what they said! I'm laughing at how many times it ...
Me when I was in First Grade The television set was first introduced into homes in the '50s. Every day, someone on our block was getting their brand new TV delivered. I can still see the delivery men carrying the monster box into our house and setting up the new black and white ...
I got another story published today so it's time to celebrate. The story is entitled "The Last Threads of Denial" but there are many invisible threads that still entangle me. I dance around around issues, unable or unwilling to face the truth; I worry whether my story told the whole truth or if I ...
In late October, or early November, after I came back from the Florida Writers Conference, I decided to use Submittable to send out a couple of my chapters as short stories. A couple of the entries were free, a few of them cost under $5. Altogether, I sent out twelve entries. People in my writing ...
When the kids were little, we'd get questions about what was wrong with Jessica from Sarah and Alia's friends. Maybe a lot of them didn't have interactions with a mentally handicapped kid. At first glance, Jessica didn't appear to have anything wrong with her. In fact,she was really cute. So were the other two. But ...
Rene, Jessica's support coordinator was talking to me as I held the phone against my ear listening to his reassurances. I felt the tears welling up in my eyes. The crying was about to begin for the fifth time that day. "I just want her to be okay and when I took her to my new ...
