What I Did Before My Dad Died, Dealing With Grief Through Love
carriejonesbooks Lately, it feels like a lot of my friends are losing loved ones and family. Grief comes in big ways and small as we all adjust to such huge loss…
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We Need More Hobbits In this World, Drugs, My Dad, Cancer and the Boston Marathon
The first time I blogged the first section of this post back in 2013, I checked with my dad to make sure he was okay with it. He was. My…
Writing Tip Wednesday – WRITING IMMORTALS
Immortals. A lot of us writers who dabble or write full-out fantasy or science fiction deal with these little devils. But what does it mean to be immortal? And what…
Hugging Strangers is Possibly the Best Way to be Human
She had stayed at our camper site for nine years, not continuously, but for a couple weeks at a time each summer while her husband came to Maine to abandon…
I was Nominated for Woman of the Year and My Heart is Hitching All Over the Place
My heart hitched yesterday. This email came that I was nominated for the local YWCA’s woman of the year. I stared at it. And stared at it. And stared. I…