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  • When not on sabbatical, I work for a human rights organization and edit news releases...Indigenous communities.  I sometimes go into what I call "cold-hearted editor mode" where I'm only thinking abou...
  • Patricia Reis commented on her article Undertaking Memoir
    Thanks for your comments, Pamela and Paula.  At the AWP in Seattle this past March, I heard a panel chaired by Joy Castro called "Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Haz...
  • Yes. And our mothers were raped, were suppressed into being active recruits in the rape and suppression of their daughters...it is lineage, our lineage, our human lineage and everyone is needed in the call to waking up! Let's not leave anyone behind this time!
  • This statement of a non-gendered List of Great Writers, as suggested here by Pauline, is exactly the kind of banner that can run through a culture to position a “brand...
  •   Hum - what have I learned this year about being a writer... Perhaps the greatest thing I have learned this year: I am a work in progress too, a best seller wai...
  • thanks for this useful, straightforward, and easy to accomplish list of goals for book promotion!
  • I've experienced something similar. Not with my parents who were my biggest cheerleaders, but with male friends who thought my novel based on family history from 3 dif...
  • Very intriguing and so meaningful. I love how both play such significant parts in our lives and human and as authors. I totally understood the metaphor. Thank you for sharing ;-)
  • Thanks, Julie. I needed a good dose of pep talk to get me out of my funk, and you can always be relied upon to deliver the best of pep talks. I have been in a rut for...
  • Kamy, What you say is of course indeed true, yet there is much more to the story than  racism. What  bothers me is the officers mindset of abuse. They kill dogs, menta...