Just say ‘I love you’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Trying to pack a year’s worth of love into a single day of romance seems superficial. Instead, try saying “I love you” every day, in words and in action.
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Those pesky personal pronouns
Reading Time: < 1 minute The simplest solution to avoid the whole pronoun identity problem is to avoid the third person singular entirely. Each person has a name. Use it.
Read More Those pesky personal pronounsWeek in Review: Week 1
Reading Time: < 1 minute A look back at the first week of “Living Here Together” and where we can expect to go together from here.
Read More Week in Review: Week 1‘Margery’ character studies
Reading Time: 5 minutes -WRITING LIFE- Creating a cast for a one-act play about the medium who baffled Houdini seemed simple–until research showed there was more to the story.
Read More ‘Margery’ character studiesThe curtain rises on a play
Reading Time: 4 minutes — WRITING LIFE — Wanting to trod the boards with playwright Henry Fielding, I take my story about Houdini and Margery to my first playwriting class.
Read More The curtain rises on a play‘The Witch of Lime Street’
Reading Time: 4 minutes – REVIEW -To tell the whole story of the Margery mediumship would require voluminous research: newspaper coverage, personal correspondence and university archives, museum collections, stories told and retold by friends and family. I would never have the time or the scholarship to pull off a project like this one. Fortunately, someone finally did.
Read More ‘The Witch of Lime Street’Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon Hill
Reading Time: 6 minutes – WRITING LIFE – A story with great characters, conflict, action, and humor dropped on my desk as an intern. What to do? Second in a series.
Read More Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon HillNothing up my sleeve…
Reading Time: 5 minutes – WRITING LIFE – How an internship for Reader’s Digest launched my interest in Houdini and a story that would haunt me for life.
Read More Nothing up my sleeve…‘How to Publish a Book on Amazon: Real Advice from Someone Who’s Doing it Well’
Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – ‘How to Publish a Book on Amazon: Real Advice from Someone Who’s Doing it Well’ is a really long title, but it proves a point.
Read More ‘How to Publish a Book on Amazon: Real Advice from Someone Who’s Doing it Well’‘Living Here’ — Beginner Error
Reading Time: 2 minutes – WRITING – A first try at my first book weighs in at 3,219 pages. Apparently some editing is in order.
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