Yearly Archives: 2010
Skipping Along the Path to Publication
The opening sentence of Broken Dolls: (That is, if I don’t edit it again!) Nobu knew everything had changed with those words: Japs attack Pearl Harbor. Now, it would be okay for everybody to hate the Japanese. Yesterday, after working … Continue reading
Skipping Along the Path to Publication
The opening sentence of Broken Dolls: (That is, if I don’t edit it again!) Nobu knew everything had changed with those words: Japs attack Pearl Harbor. Now, it would be okay for everybody to hate the Japanese. Yesterday, after working … Continue reading
God Winked
Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I drove to the airport to pick up my daughter, my mind racing with a frenetic “To-Do” list for the coming days: 1) Pick up last minute, forgotten items at the grocery store. (I did this about four … Continue reading
God Winked
Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I drove to the airport to pick up my daughter, my mind racing with a frenetic “To-Do” list for the coming days: 1) Pick up last minute, forgotten items at the grocery store. (I did this about four … Continue reading
Change of Heart
I was going to post a Thanksgiving blog today, but I learned a lesson that I thought important to write about, and in the end, it left me thankful. As with most days, my morning started with sipping a cup of … Continue reading
Change of Heart
I was going to post a Thanksgiving blog today, but I learned a lesson that I thought important to write about, and in the end, it left me thankful. As with most days, my morning started with sipping a cup of … Continue reading
Honor
“All of us can’t stay in the [internment] camps until the end of the war. Some of us have to go to the front. Our record on the battlefield will determine when you will return and how you will be … Continue reading
The Wonderful Years Between Two Yucky Events
It is with some trepidation, intimidation, indecision, embarrassment, and finally resolution, that I post this blog about my colonoscopies. But, after listening to Gayle King speak of her “event” last week, my feeling that we shouldn’t be embarrassed about such … Continue reading
Recognizing Sacrifice
My father was a career Air Force officer, from approximately 1955 until 1975. I thought Veteran’s Day would be a good day to write about my memories of his time in the service and about being an “Air Force Brat.” … Continue reading
These Are a Few of My Favorite Words
I love words. When I write, they are like little treasures to me. Sometimes, I find them with hardly a search, and other times they are buried so deep, no amount of digging will uncover the prized and perfect word for which I search. To … Continue reading
