Books & Writing

Writers lead solitary lives for the most part. Which is why we need each other. I don’t know where I’d be or how I would have navigated the ups and downs of this crazy business I’m in without my writers’ tribe. We support each other, critique each other’s works, cheer each other … [Read more...] about “Don’t Make Me Turn This Life Around”

I came upon some old friends the other day. I was surprised and delighted when I spied them sitting in a sunny spot in a quiet nook as I was passing by. Well-read and a bit faded with age, like me. Waiting to be noticed, they whispered to anyone who might be listening, “Do I have … [Read more...] about Old Friends

I’m having an aha! moment. I was celebrating the completion of the first draft of my work in progress—all 400 pages of it, in record time—when it hit me: The speed with which I wrote it wouldn’t have possible without the pandemic. Ugh. I know what you’re thinking. How can there … [Read more...] about My Aha! Moment

Last night my husband and I watched the first episode of the excellent Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway. It reminded me of two things. First, my tour of the Hemingway House in Key West some years ago where I visited the six-toed descendants of his six-toed cats. … [Read more...] about Hemingway & His Six-Toed Cats

I’m sitting at the breakfast bar with my laptop as I write this. Normally, I write in my office ten steps from my kitchen where I enjoy a view of the Times Square area in New York City from the 29th floor of my condo building. On days when the light pours in through the … [Read more...] about Now and Then