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  • Have to speak up again as I'm raising 3 sons. I just wrote an article that will be in the next issue of Hip Mama called "If We Want Men Who Rock Our World We Need to S...
  • Melanie Bishop commented on her article Virginity and Potential
    Patricia, I don't think we're ever "done" really. A piece can always get better, tighter, more precise, but we surrender at some point, and say that it's good enough t...
  • It's turning into a discovery of what I must have known but failed to recognise! Sifting the essential from the diverting will be the problem.
  • Excellent, up-to-date info on what is an essential practice these days. You don't have to just be able to write in today's environment, you have to be the one armed paper-hanging promoter too. This is a very do-able plan, though, and much appreciated.
  • How timely for me that you posted your excellent essay at this time. This is such a huge subject isn't it for those of us who are writing/have written a memoir. This p...
  • Kerry, you nailed it here: "...there is something inherently womanly about blogging as I’ve come to understand it. Not just, of course, because it’s the latest in a lo...
  • Wow, thank you all for your comments. It does seem like it's a personal preference rather than a generation thing. I learned to type when I was training to be a secret...
  • I'm very glad you chose to share this! ISMS (sexism, racism, ageism etc) are certianly real and when one shines the light on the obvious, I believe it is required for...
  • Hello Beth. Reiko encouraged me to meet you on your blog, as I came to her, a new MFA student...ry for its beautiful writing and undauntable expression of motherhood. Your "small and esse...
  • As someone who just published a memoir (SWP, April 2014) I feel your trepidation. Do I ever. In my case, I knew I had to write the book. No doubt. Buoyed by this knowl...