Some people call me Mom, one calls me Honey, several call me Madame Arbitrator and now all of you can call me Award-Winning Writer! I am honored to announce that I’ve won the 2018 Christopher Hewitt Award for Creative Non-Fiction for my story Custody Visit (1987), excerpted from my memoir. I hope you like it!
One month ago, I wrote a blog post called The Big To Do List, and I set out some resolutions for the month of June. I blasted through those goals. I wrote three decisions in two weeks, revised my mystery novel in 10 days instead of 20 days, and blogged 26 times out of a …
How is everyone out there doing on their June memoir project? I’ve been blogging (almost) every on my Medium blog. Here is today’s post. Then I’ve been cutting and pasting it into this blog, and adding a memoir writing prompt. I’ve been doing that because, in theory, I can get paid by Medium when people …
A couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post published this article on Five Myths About Marriage. I’ve been married fifteen years, and these myths had already been debunked for me. They did get me thinking about all the marriage advice I’ve received in my life, and whether it helped or not. “Sometimes it’s love, and sometimes …
This is my view right now. In theory, this should be a very inspiring spot to be in when one needs to write. But mainly, I just want to lay down on that great green bed and go to sleep. I’m not big enough, unfortunately, but the smell of horse poop and the honking cab …
Earlier this month, I wrote about the word queerspawn, and what I thought about it. I’m working on a replacement name for the offspring of gays and lesbians that doesn’t conjure infection or insects (“spawn”). Although I’ve only seen the word used affectionately by COLAGs (not a good replacement, I’ve decided), it reminded at least two …
I committed to writing a blog post every day this month, but today, I just don’t know what to write about. I hosted a sleepover for my 11-year-old last night, and had to get at 2:30 to make the loudest possible shushing noise I could. I’m not sure it worked, but I’m also not sure …
Near the end of my first year of law school, I started dating someone who hadn’t had to endure the minutia of my father’s life and my efforts to reconcile it with mine. Dan just knew my dad was gay, and I left it at that. A couple of months after we started dating, we …
On Monday, my husband and I went to see This Land at Pier 24. Pier 24 is a cool project. It’s halfway between a gallery and a museum, dedicated to photography. It’s free to the public but it requires an appointment. This Land is a 15 gallery show of different photographers whose works were taking …
After I had written the seventh draft of my memoir, I decided I should probably try to figure out who my audience for this book might be. I figured PFLAG would be a great start, and then as a I researched similar organizations, I found COLAGE. I started to get excited. When I was a kid, I couldn’t …