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Book Event Briefs Through October
Autumn is my favorite season- crisp air, stunning foliage, and that deeply rooted ‘back-to-school’ energy. That last is a good thing, as...


Fiber Artist and Writer
With thanks to Women on Writing for their publication of this piece! Abbie Rose Stone, the main character in my forthcoming novel, Hard...


An Encore Career as a Writer
So appreciated being able to post this piece at Writers Helping Writers Five Ways to Prepare for an Encore Career as a Writer 1. Plan...

Getting to Be the Grandmother I Want to Be
I recently read a Tablet Magazine piece that discussed ways in which Jewish baby-boomer women are redefining what it means to be a...


Tarot Reading as Book Research
For at least ten years, I’d passed the brightly painted sign along the winding road on the peninsula where I love to live in northwest...


Barbaras One and All
Every June 4, on the beautiful Leelanau Peninsula in northern Michigan, dozens of women in their 50s, 60s and 70s gather in one of the...


Second Book Blues
Wrangling a book manuscript through an umpteenth revision in the deep freeze of a Michigan winter is reason enough to be seeing the world...


This is About All of Humanity
Your intrepid author recently began using the social media platform, Instagram. The following is a comment that appeared on a post I did...

Welcome to Hard Cider
I recently read a wonderful piece in the Guardian by the writer Kristina Olsson about her cross-country walk from one side of England to...


In 1973
This piece has been roiling around in my head for months. A fellow author asked whether the current political environment reminded us of...
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