Lessons from a Jersey Childhood. (The book I didn’t write.)

  Every writer has projects stuck under the bed, in the back of the drawer or on an old laptop. Someday I’ll write all the books I planned and outlined. Today I came across this chapter list, written years ago for a memoir not written, but planned as a tongue in cheek Jersey girl lesson…

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A Writer’s Prayer

May I write beautiful, heart-stopping prose today.  And if not, may I write five hundred words. May I leap into the unconscious river of creativity with my mind and heart wide open. May my writing be rich with the strange details of my day – the Grateful Dead sticker on an abandoned wheelchair, the old…

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