by Elizabeth | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve come full circle. Somewhere in my twenties, I read something that made me believe in manifest destiny. Over the past decade, a combination of jilted plans and fruitless wishful thinking — plus, perhaps, a measure of emotional maturity — changed that for me....
by Elizabeth | Apr 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s been one year and five months since I wrote the first page of my current novel. That happened in December of 2010. Granted, that first page was more the expanding on an idea than an actual start to the thing. It came to me right after a surgery I had and I...
by Elizabeth | Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Getting candy in a family with five kids when you’re the youngest is a rare treat. For me, it was all about Mary Mare. Mrs. Mare was an old woman on our street — she lived in the smallest house at the end next to Electric Boulevard with a cherry tree right there...
by Elizabeth | Feb 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Do you ever feel like you’re reliving a similar experience that you’ve had before, but this time with a new twist or added element or slight or not so slight variation? It happens to me fairly often. Perhaps it’s because I carry certain past...
by Elizabeth | Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I don’t know how to articulate this, but I’ll give it a shot. Recently, I was standing in my sister’s kitchen and she was cooking something for her family for dinner. There was no part of it that didn’t include animal protein. She asked me to eat (like she...
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