On her kitchen wall, my good friend Carmen had a sign that read “Happiness is Homemade.” Since I believe that we all can choose to focus either on the positive elements in an event or we can choose to focus…
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THE MOUNTAINS OR THE PLAINS?
Lake Deweese in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado No doubt artistic expression is influenced by a number of factors. After living in flat, subtle Oklahoma and moving to mountainous not-so subtle Colorado, I’ve decided that perhaps geography plays…
WHAT DO READERS WANT?
What do readers want in a story? This is a question that I suppose every writer who has ever written a single word has struggled with. It also probably has as many answers as there are readers. Writing gurus…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Blake Snyder, Bob Mayer, Daniel Silva, J. K. Rowling, James Scott Bell, Malcolm Gladwell, Marisha Pessl, Michael McGarrity, Robert Galbraith
REMEMBERING THE PAST
General Jefferson C. Davis, staff and the Fourteenth Corps passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury. This Corps was the last unit to pass by the viewing stand. W. D. Hall, my husband’s great grandfather, is somewhere in this…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Fourteenth Corps, George Santayana, Jefferson C. Davis, Review of Troops, War between the States, War of the Rebellion, Washington DC
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
I have spelled my name at least nine million three hundred thousand seven hundred and eighty three times in my lifetime. My first name, Danelle, proves difficult for many people. They want to put an “i” in it and turn…
