It has been a while! My last post was a few years back, and at the time we were thinking of moving to Minnesota. Update: We did not move to Minnesota! Instead, we moved back to Florida, and I am home! I made the most of one amazing year in my hometown, Lake Wales, Florida, …
“I try to write so much like myself that no one else could have written like that.” These profound words come from the website of my current favorite writer, Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger. I dream of taking these words in and swallowing them, devouring them as inspiration, using them to …
He looks at me earnestly, with concern for the pain he knows is there, and he says, “Why don’t you try not eating tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplant?” “I’m half Irish and half Italian. If I can’t eat tomatoes and potatoes, I’ll die,” is my admittedly histrionic repsonse. “Just try it,” he says. Thus commences my foray …
Punctuation of the English language is an exquisite, albeit confusing, tool with which to perfect one’s pithy, powerful, and adroit prose. I assert, with some satisfaction, that, when it comes to grammar and mechanics, I am of the “Old School.” Yes, I enjoyed diagramming, or parsing, sentences when I was in elementary school. I adored the picture: a …