Monthly Archives: July 2012
Musings on a Writer’s Workshop
People surround me. Perched on uncomfortable folding chairs, we are jammed into a small space squeezed between the shelves in a book store. Voices make a hub-bub, and I look around to see the other fledgling writers. Some are … Continue reading
Forties Music
I was brought up on rock and roll—Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and later, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was the music I choose as the background throughout my life from my … Continue reading
The Kindness of Strangers
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Tennessee Williams, American playwright Kindness. Being kind. Qualities that I value in other people. Maybe I’m unusually lucky, but I have many kind and understanding people in my life: husband, … Continue reading