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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...
  • I am looking forward to stating the very words "I quit" because "I write." Although, right now I write about my work. It is my job that has brought me full circle. I w...
  • Kimberly: Thanks for this great blog. It gives all of us a wealth of points to consider as we move into this next season. Lately, I've been working with a mantra that...
  • @Brooke: But magazines need to pay for content, whether they're buying stories or articles or reviews.  They make money from subscriptions and ad revenue, and they wou...
  • Thanks for this. It took me years (after probably 8 years of working as a gardener) to realize my brand is about horticulture! I've written a literary thriller about a...
  • Getting to a bestseller list seems like a serendipitous combo of ambition + multiple talents + being at the right place at the right time. Like the elite in any field....
  • I fell in love with reading and writing about the age of eight, and my favorite book was Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. That was surely my first memoir (of the doll n...
  • I'll agree it's unfair to charge one group of authors and not the other. But I see the...usly way to squeeze money out of self-published authors, not a viable business model. I do not agree in any way t...
  • Thank you, Maggie. How interesting to hear that you've been involved with palliative care. It is such a precious and special field. A gift really. 
  • Madge Woods commented on her article Obituaries
    I was just curious not adding judgment. It is something I find interesting. Most of the comments on my other sites have given me lots of funny and poignant reasons. No...