“Write what you know.” That’s writing advice of long standing. As one story goes, Louisa May Alcott followed this advice and wrote Little Women after a publisher pointed out her tales of lords and ladies were not authentic. I’ve been asked often if I wrote about my own family in
The holiday season feels especially merry for me with the pleasure of One More Foxtrot, a tale of second chances being published. Betty Miles and Sharon and Vince D’Angelo, Betty’s daughter and son-in-law, were too real let go of after Escape from Assisted Living. And I really enjoyed the interest that my
Coming-of-age stories about people 25 to 40-something often bore me–been there, done that. Give me a novel about someone in the second half of life and I’m hooked. Romance, self-discovery, spiritual growth, personal challenges, and family drama, it’s all there nuanced with the complexity that more time on earth and
A highlight of recent weeks was going to see MockingJay Pt 1 with my granddaughter and prepping by rewatching Catching Fire the night before. Last summer we saw Divergent twice. Of course, it’s a great way to spend time (and money) with a grandchild but also gives us a chance to hash
*Truth in Proverbs: Sons & Daughters Conversation is never thin when Betty, whom you can meet in my novel Escape from Assisted Living, and her friends Ardyce, Irene, or Mabel get together. Right now they’re between hands of bridge debating the wisdom of the proverb “A son’s a son until he
A reading of the play Alcestis by Euripides has led to hot debate among friends at the senior center book club over what we owe in family relationships. In the play, as decreed by the gods, King Admetus must die. He asks his father or mother to change places with him