The medical profession is expanding its facilities across all over the country, including remote areas. As a result, there is huge demand for the skilled and professional personnel to handle the responsibilities of the patient care and various treatments. If you…

Another year down, wow... maybe it's time, maybe it's age, maybe it's wisdom, lol. In any event, the end of the year has drawn me closer - inward, and made me realize I need to think about my new year's resolutions differently. Happy New Year all!!!

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I am watching 'Return of the Jedi' on cable. It is six p.m. on New Year's Eve and I am in bed. I have a slight cold and my shih tzu Chewbaca, who looks more Ewok than Wookie, is curled next to me snoring.



I watched 'Return of the Jedi' with my dad at the drive-in thirty years ago. The saga is about a brother and sister and their father.



And my story 'Movie Time', about a childhood trip to the drive-in with my father, was published today in a literary…

"Because time won't give me time..." ("Time" by Culture Club)



Cinderella only had to worry about the stroke of midnight.



The stroke of midnight no longer hems me in its prison. Oh yes, as a teenager and as a twenty-six year old returning home for a year, it did.



Now the stroke of each hour binds me in a chokehold. And the minute hand has just landed on twelve.



It is 8:00a.m.

 

He swivels around on the bar stool and whistles while he eats.…

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

I’m getting acquainted with the woman who has made an appearance on my computer.  She’s a bit like me, only bitchier, at least at the beginning of the book. Not her fault.  She’s been married to a bully of a husband for forty years and for some reason, she’s hung in there. Not my problem, but I can identify. 

One morning she wakes up next to him and discovers…

I’m thinking that folks writing books in this flowing stream-of-consciousness manner are either would-be, envious, behind-the-times  Joycists  or angry  anti-Strunkists revolting against every red-inked correction they ever received from instructors whose job was to make their writing readable.

But, then, I’m an old lady, taught the conventional punctuation of the early 1900’s by Teacher Kuhnau, who was born in Germany and understood that rules are…

Why There Are Words, named SF Guardian's Best of the Bay for Literary Event 2012, will celebrate its 3^rd anniversary Jan. 10, 2013, with the special event “Pairings.” Beginning at 7 pm, at Studio 333 in Sausalito, tasty servings of poets and writers paired together for a delectable treat will read each other’s work. The event is $10 at the door. Bring extra cash for books and booze. Seats will go quickly, so arrive…

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Well, I hope I’m not jumping the gun too much when I say that the world didn’t end in 2012 — which is great, because it means I have more time to write (and even to write about the world ending!). So without further ado, these are my writing resolutions for 2013:

1. To up the ante on submissions from once a month to once a week.
2. To bring Rumpled through one more round of revisions, and hopefully have it “submission-ready” at some point this…

Book Give-Away Dec 31 – Jan 7: You have a chance to win a Sweet Romance, For What It's Worth. Leave a comment about this interview with your e-mail. For an extra entry, post this contest. Hard copy or e-book: U.S. and Canada. Ebook: International.



This is the story of 24-year-old Abby Benson. An inheritance from her aunt gives her the ability to make her dream of owning a wedding cake bakery a reality. She hires (and falls for) Dane, a handsome contractor who helps her renovate the…

I saw her in my periphery as I turned left at the light.

Tall and slender. Holding a phone, I think.

The sight of her immediately caused my heart to race and my eyes to tear up.

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It's not easy and won't get easier.

"Don't give up your day job". Sometimes you have to…