Ah…here we are again. The first week of August at the annual Cape Cod Writers Center Conference. I always call this week summer camp for adults. It’s a week to mingle and chat and learn and, this year, work in the bookstore. I love working in the bookstore. I get to reconnect with people I . . . → Read More: Summer Camp – Day 1
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…is the tune floating through my head late this afternoon. It’s been a busy day, teaching in the morning and working out in the afternoon. Now…it’s about 4pm and I’m the only one home. I have things to do, and the quiet time to do them. What do I want to do? Nothing. Nothing that . . . → Read More: Today I Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything… 
I’m still involved in Diane Gilman’s book Good Jeans. I usually fly through books, but with this one I forced myself to slow down, digest, and savor. By savor I mean the book inspires me, which in turn makes me happy, and I want the smoke of inspiration to last. I don’t want it to . . . → Read More: Dreaming Tonight a writer brought a story to our Cape Cod Children’s Writers critique group about a weasel trying to save two baby seagulls before the tide rolled in. The seagulls refused to cooperate, no matter what the weasel did because they thought he was trying to eat them. The weasel said to himself that he . . . → Read More: Weasels & Seagulls Today was what I refer to as a “themed day.” A themed day is when everything that crosses my path intersects or connects somehow. Today that theme was aging. I woke up to Facebook urging me to wish my husband Richard a happy 60th birthday tomorrow. Since we were born two weeks apart (in . . . → Read More: Aging – The Theme of the Day This is the first weekend in almost a month my husband and I have been alone. We had some great things planned. Last night we went to the Cape Cod Art Bar. We took a bottle of red and two glasses and painted the Bourne Bridge amid lots of fun and laughter. We were pretty . . . → Read More: Vacation Weekend Today was the first day of family Fourth of July summer vacation. We woke up to torrential rains, as well as a thunderstorm at 6am. I felt sorry for the kids, because they had their cooler and radio packed and couldn’t wait to hit the beach. Rain at 8 am. Rain at 9 am. Rain . . . → Read More: Silly Summer Read From today’s Cape Cod Times: East Sandwich- Maureen Brenner summed up in one word her advice to students graduating from The Riverview School on Sunday: yet. “Sometimes things seem too hard and we can’t do it yet” Riverview is a private boarding school for children and young adults with complex language, learning and cognitive . . . → Read More: Yet I have always been into what makes me, “me”. I always thought it was important to pay attention to my packaging in order to put myself out into the world in a way that will make a difference. Fashion, color, and glitter – yes, glitter and all things that sparkle – were always high on . . . → Read More: Get Your Ooh La La! On TullyandKate. All Kristin Hannah fans know TullyandKate. Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane is the best friendship story ever told. I remember reading in 2009 and just crying and sobbing after I turned the last page. Making the reader care and invest in the characters is the mark of a best selling author. Nobody does it like . . . → Read More: TullyandKate |
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