Musings from the tailor shop
Station Eleven Outside, Little House on the Prairie Inside
What genre are we living in? It occurred to me this week that I’m simultaneously living in two--science fiction outside my four walls and middle-grade fiction inside those four walls. Outside is an uncontrollable enemy threatening our very existence. Inside is a...
What I Read This Month – February, 2020
Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers I picked this book up at a used book sale, unable to explain my attraction to it. After finishing it, though, I felt like somehow my subconscious knew it would be highly impactful. Though nonfiction, the story has all the makings of a tense,...
Dread and Love: Two Faces of Writing
Yesterday a friend took me to task. She claimed I made two contradictory statements within 10 minutes. On the one hand, I declared that I loved to write more than anything. On the other hand, I mentioned that on Sunday night I dreaded Monday because I would need to...