One of the most difficult nights of my life occurred just about eight years ago. It was the night that Manny, The Best Dog Who Ever Lived, lost the use of his hind legs. It hadn’t been a great several months. I’d been fired at the end of July, and my search for a
Author: Melanie
Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
In Denial About the Writer’s Impossible Dream?
Few of us say it out loud. Instead, we say we’ll be happy if our writing touches the right person, just one. Or we talk about how thrilled we are or will be when we hold a copy of
Late to the New Year’s Resolutions Party
OK, so it’s January 8, a week after New Year’s Day and the time when the Christmas decorations should be put away. What’s your point?
Reflections and Reflecting in Oklahoma
My sister and I went to Tulsa for New Year’s. Oklahoma is her next-to-last state (in the Great Rigney Family States Saga; she’ll get New Mexico on her own this fall). In typical