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Category: Writers’ Conferences

Lent 2013, Day 32: Come Saturday Morning

For one last time today, I’m going away with my friends… with my special sisters and brothers in Christ who are my St. Davids Christian Writers Association friends. Here’s how the day will go: I’ll sleep till around 7 a.m. at the beautiful Pittsburgh

Published March 16, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Friendship, Lent, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality, St. Davids Christian Writers, Writers' Conferences, Writing

Lent 2013, Day 14: Mixed Feedback

“We did what you said, but the feedback has been mixed,” a delightful acquaintance well into her ninth decade wrote me recently. I could feel my blood start to boil. I had suggested she and her husband quit worrying about getting their memoirs into perfect

Published February 26, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Editing, Family, Friendship, Lent, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Writers' Conferences, Writing

Pieces of June

Some of you will remember June 2012 as the month of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act or the Arizona immigration law.  Others will remember it for

Published July 7, 2012
Categorized as Catholicism, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality, St. Davids Christian Writers, Travel, When They Come Home, Writers' Conferences, Writing

Leaving Mr. Wonderful Behind

I brought Mr. Wonderful back to my room on Thursday night. Then I discarded him on Saturday morning. I got Mr. Wonderful at the annual St. Davids Christian Writers’ Conference auction that benefits the conference scholarship fund. He’s a real doll, and says all kinds of things people think women

Published June 24, 2012
Categorized as Friendship, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, St. Davids Christian Writers, Travel, Writers' Conferences

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