Tag: family
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Publishing Contracts, Motherhood, Dreams, Hopes and Wishes…
I’ve been busy these last few weeks refining and making last changes to the document files for interior and book cover of my novel, “The House”. It’s been an interesting experience bringing this piece of work, “The House” to fruition. My first book, a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident”, was…
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Of Long Weekends, Discipline and Time for Dreaming…
This past weekend was a holiday weekend. I relish long weekends. They give me more time with my husband and children. The greatest challenge of any writer is finding enough time. Time to write and time with family and friends. The true writer writes. She or he doesn’t talk or dream about writing. They develop…
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The Quiet That Descended…
A quiet descended somewhere between the last hours of Christmas Eve and 12 am Christmas morn. My husband with two of our children was away at midnight Mass. Our middle had been home with me preparing the early Christmas meal. We always eat our Christmas meal in the wee hours of the morn after the…
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Passion and Responsibility…
This week was busy week. The children returned to school. Fall semester finals loom ahead for my 11th grader with two paper due in just one class. My eldest, a graduate student, faces no
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Who Am I: What Do I Really Want?
According to Jungian theory, the shadow aspect of one’s personality contains any, and everything that falls out of alignment, stands apart, from the ego ideal. The writer must examine the central character’s values, those held by her or his family, mother, father and culture, to gain a sense of how the Shadow archetype might manifest…
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My Love for Things Victorian and Historical
As an author of modern-day Women’s Fiction, I find that reading Historical Fiction and of the Victorian era gives me room to breathe and imagine, or re-imagine, if you will, new twists on possibilities for plots in the modern era. The modern era in wiping away the constrictions and hesitancies of the individual, and family…