The house is quiet. The guests are gone. The dishes have been washed and put away. We had a respectable crowd – 45 – many of whom were my favorite people. I looked around at one point and thought, “How wonderful to have many of my closest friends all in one place!” The Open House…
Tag: personal essay
Sandra Adams Leatherwood, RIP
Today at 5:30 pm, my beloved sister-in-law, Sandra, died. I talked to her yesterday on the phone and told her I loved her and would see after her three grown girls. Today, all day I have thought about her and then late this afternoon, I received the phone call. Sandra is one of my oldest…
Prompt: Tough Night to Write
I would be lying if I said that it’s easy to write tonight. I’ve tried three different times with three different stories and nothing is striking my fancy after ten lines or so. Nothing suits tonight. This is just the way it is sometimes with writing. Some days, I can write with a one word…
Prompt: My Writing Life – Push and Pull
I am trying to find my way as a writer. I have written a 425 page memoir, that memoir turned into a 350 page novel, 75 pages each of three different romance novels, and am currently about one third of the way – 100 pages – through a young adult novel. I am published only…
Today in Corpus Christi
My husband and I have come to Corpus Christi to see our daughter, Sarah, who is a 3rd year medical student doing her rotations down here on the Texas coast. She’s been here since July and we’ve seen her a couple of times in California or at our home in North Central Texas, but this…
20 Minutes a Day 