Don’t cry. No one wants to see you cry again. You cried enough – a river, an ocean. Nowadays, the hostess seats you behind plants and screens in most of the restaurants in town. They remember. The relationship lasted only six months and although you thought he was your soul mate, he married someone else. […]
The little things in life make the hard scary transitions bearable. That and holding onto your cranky attitude. […]
I signed up for a course on Plot in Fiction through Coursera and can’t figure out how to post my assignments. Running up against many web walls, I decided to post them on my website. Remember, this is fiction, made-up, not true. My nasty little trolls (Jennifer G., Richard A., and Susie S.) can make […]
Sitting at the coffee shop with my friends, I asked, “Should I write something funny or sappy in my blog today?” I was thinking that I had the themes for both types of posts. “Funny,” said my friend, the quintessential Southern Belle. Her husband just smirked across from us. “You couldn’t pull off sappy for […]
I have been going to my coffee shop for 19 years. The same shop, same people, same coffee for 19 years. Through rain and shine, snow and black ice, writing my doctoral dissertation, mourning the loss of my husband, a breast cancer scare, unfulfilled engagements and the last set of surgeries, it has been the […]