We’ll see the changing of the colors, dear, no matter when it is: the swan emerging from the river before summer’s end when one more calla lily portrays its plumes.
Category: Literature
The G-Word
This is the fourth post in my goodbye series. Dedicated to those who have ever had to say goodbye too soon. July is is Bereaved Parents' Month. Don't say the g-word. I don't want to hear it. "God?" you ask. I roll my eyes like my daughter, Corrie, did when I asked her a question… Continue reading The G-Word
Lost the Kitten: A Corrie Poem by her Mom
I lost the kitten that went with the mitten. I don’t know where to find her. She played in the sun. When she was done, she came to wash the dishes as she followed my wishes to help me with the dinner. She said, “I’m the winner,” to her Papa, who ate the chips and… Continue reading Lost the Kitten: A Corrie Poem by her Mom
A Love Affair with Book
It happens so often. We have a love affair with a book. It's even better when it is a series. I felt this way about The Hunger Games, Scythe series, and Peculiar Children. Last summer, I read through Born Survivors and other books about the Holocaust. For a long time, I continued to read. I… Continue reading A Love Affair with Book
Tomi Adeyemi Brought my Writing Back from the Dead
My writing is back from the dead. Obviously, I'm still here. If you've read my blog before, you know I come and go. I know the most successful bloggers post regularly, or more than once a week. As I've written A Word or More through the years, I've tried to bring the focus back to why we're… Continue reading Tomi Adeyemi Brought my Writing Back from the Dead
Meet Your Writing Goal: Enter a Competition
Enter a competition. I encourage you to do it. It's been a hot minute since I did a contest. Although I've left my four blogs untouched for the last two weeks due to renovation and, you know, an active life; I've been more active writing this summer than in previous years. I allowed my career to run… Continue reading Meet Your Writing Goal: Enter a Competition
Craft a Smaller Collection from your Longer Chapbook
Poetry's dead, man. No one wants to read it. Chill. I'm kidding. I don't know. Some people may argue poetry, like rock-n-roll, is dead; on it's way to a recycle or scrap yard like newspapers. As an poet alone, the truth remains--unless by some magical knowledge you know of and I don't--that books of poetry rarely sale. … Continue reading Craft a Smaller Collection from your Longer Chapbook
Thoughts on the American Revolution and Women
Everyone has different opinions about the Declaration of Independence just as ... they have different opinions about people's roles during the American Revolution. This has to do with two things: (1) the United States is trying to grow more diverse in all people's history during the American Revolution and (2) the history of the American… Continue reading Thoughts on the American Revolution and Women
Why We Need to Talk about our Non-fiction Writers
Choose your writing content like a long term relationship... if you want it to last. When I started writing as a child, I wrote fiction and poems. I never imagined writing non-fiction. Something I read in a Facebook writing group and on Twitter made me think. Nonfiction authors are writers who tell a true story… Continue reading Why We Need to Talk about our Non-fiction Writers
Parts of a Memoir
We're talking the difference between storms and hurricanes.
Corrie's Season 