I Can Do The Tricky Stuff
We all plan our lives to some degree. Plan our children’s lives. We are not gifted with seeing into the
Reading, writing, parenting…that’s what I do. My first career: teaching English literature at the secondary level. After my children were born, I fulfilled another desire, becoming an RN, working in Labor & Delivery at Mercy Hospital, Chicago. When we moved to Des Moines, I attended the University of Iowa Writing Workshops and worked as a proofreader for Meredith Books. In 2015, Foreverland Press published my collection of stories, A Mother’s Time Capsule. My work has appeared in literary magazines, The Chicago Tribune, Better Homes & Gardens and the Des Moines Register.
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We all plan our lives to some degree. Plan our children’s lives. We are not gifted with seeing into the
In the late sixties, I became a latchkey child who didn’t mind walking two plus miles from Longwood High School
Novel writing is always about human joy, human grief. And novels often use tropes to organize content and please the