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A Lifetime of Writing

I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, which is at least as far back as kindergarten when I entered my first Illinois Young Authors’ Contest*. My first story was, rather fittingly, about our family’s ski trip earlier in the year. On the pages of the short non-fiction story (which I’m […]

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A Road Trip I Would Love to Take

America and Australia are excellent road trip countries. America has its interstates and iconic routes like Route 66 that pass through middle-America towns, both beloved and forgotten, and past famous landmarks. Australia has wide-open expanses of country, stunning coastlines and roads that take drivers through small country towns and their bakeries. Growing up in America […]

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Happy New Year: 2022

Finally, 2022 has arrived! I spent the last two months of 2021 powering through a mountain of work and other responsibilities that left little energy for writing at the end of the day, and the final few days in a remote part of South Australia enjoying a much needed break from deadlines and the daily […]

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My Blogging Adventure

I think that life is made up of a series of adventures; sometimes they are misadventures. Either way, adventures are a way to learn. You pick up new knowledge or skills and hopefully, a really good story.  (In my experience, misadventures are particularly good for a story.) I hope to use this blog to share […]