by Elizabeth | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The accepted convention of what makes a good story is what Joseph Campbell outlined and called The Hero’s Journey. Granted, Campbell argued that this story line, having been mined from the history of world myth and theology, is something hard wired into the...
by Elizabeth | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
The other day, I was in a meeting speaking with someone who does not know me very well. “I’ll have to come over sometime and meet your partner and your dog,” she said. Three things occurred to me: First, I winced at the word, partner — the sterile...
by Elizabeth | Nov 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve historically kept to safe, although sometimes deeply personal topics here on my blog. But lately I’ve been much more political in my thinking than ever before. And although politics is not a safe topic, it suddenly became much more personal these past...
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...
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