This is the second installment of my New Year’s resolution to stay current on my blog. This week in the category of craft improvement I worked on executing gems of instruction I found in the excellent little book, Twelve Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing, C.S. Lakin, editor. I was working especially on the entries regarding […]

We finished the Christmas holiday with a 50th birthday party for my younger daughter, Tara. It was actually a family reunion, as she requested. About fifty people attended and Tara was thrilled. The timing was optimum, since cousins from all over the country, in town for the holiday, were able to make it. Back at […]

Unless you have been under a log this week, you have been barraged with countless assessments of the president’s first one hundred days in office. According to his own estimate he has accomplished more in his first one hundred days than any other president in US history. Period. I think he has convinced himself of this, […]