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Oooops! Not Done.

With the book club book.  I thought I’d be finished and posting about it today.  But my life has gotten away from me.   I, like Jamie, have about 40 pages to go and I won’t lie to you and comment before it’s over.  🙂  I am shooting for week’s end at worst.  Hopefully sooner.

The Secular Conscience

I’ve enjoyed the debate springing up in comments, thank you all! I have heard much brilliance, and observed these themes emerging. Does religion do more harm than good? What, if any, limitations are there to a purely secular future? And if there is a chance that a religion-free society would be better, should we not… Continue reading The Secular Conscience

Default

I know some writers detest blogging.  Maybe my marketing background makes this not the case for me.  I’d totally rather blog then pound through edits on my current manuscript, but I want this thing sparkling for the conference and so . . . I have been a bad little blogger. I have a deadline, see,… Continue reading Default

Writing Breakthrough

I watched my husband, Sage, quit smoking, a lot, in our last fifteen years of marriage. After his eighth or maybe eleventh try, he got it and has been smoke free for seven years. His laborious process of quitting has inspired me because I am trying to quit something too. I am trying to break… Continue reading Writing Breakthrough

Not Feeling It

So writers get writer’s block, or that’s what I’ve heard. I always remember the clichéd image of someone at the typewriter (I am older), pounding the word “the” several times before ripping the sheet out, balling it up, and then free throwing it into the trash. Then there’s Nicholson’s typed mantra from The Shining, of… Continue reading Not Feeling It