I don't recall the disagreement, but I'd had enough. "I'm not staying where I'm not wanted!" I shouted at my new husband. In a flurry of anger, I set out in the dead of winter, marching down Algoma Blvd toward the college campus. It was Sunday ... I was pregnant ... and I had no clue where I was going. Though a student at Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh, I suddenly recalled the campus was all but shut… Read More
Only a month after our wedding, Jim and I faced each other in the living room of our tiny apartment. Sadly, we admitted we'd made the biggest mistake of our lives. How could it be, when we had started out loving each other so very much? I swallowed hard and looked to my strong, handsome husband. "What do we do now?" He thought for a moment, and then quietly delivered his conviction. "We stick it out."… Read More
"It's not so much how much you weigh, as it is how much you obey." I found comfort in those words because, as my friends and family know, I'm no skinny Minnie. Would I like to be slender again? Yes! Am I expecting it to happen anytime soon? No. So why did that little poem pop into my mind while once again I ragged on myself over those extra pounds and ample inch-pinchings? I stopped… Read More
Believe it or not, it's time to get back to "14 Murder, She Wrote Tips for Balancing Your Writing LIfe." March 9, I shared the first half of those tips. I promised you seven more. So let's not waste any time. Here is Part Two of ... 14 Tips for Balancing Your Writing Life Jessica Fletcher, best-selling mystery novelist in the fictional Murder, She Wrote television series, had to manage the many facets of her writing… Read More