Blogging has its advantages and disadvantages, actually, they’re just two sides of the same coin. Knowing that anyone and everyone might read what I write makes me careful not to say anything I wouldn’t stand on a street corner and

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Almost like clockwork, my nemesis – a respiratory infection – returned last week. And, as usual, I tried to ignore it. After all it is summer and nobody should be ill.

But this morning I succumbed and called the doctor.

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“When are you going to stop writing about your book project and move on to other subjects?” Earl asked me this morning. “You’re an intelligent woman, and I want to read your opinions on other issues of the day.”

I

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For the past month I had to write approximately 1,667 words a day to stay on target for writing a 50,000 word novel in one month. It took a while to get the rhythm of it, to figure out what

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Tonight my sons and I held a conference call to celebrate our mutual achievement of writing a novel in a month. I don’t mean one novel that we wrote together; rather, I mean three novels that we each wrote individually

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One week from today my son Keith and I embark on the Great American Novel Experiment. What this means is that both he and I plan to write separate novels, at least fifty thousand words apiece, in the space called

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