by Jayne Martin, Writer | Apr 2, 2022 | Writing Life
So I dreamed that I went to AWP Philly for the launch of my new memoir, “The Daddy Chronicles-Memoir of a Fatherless Daughter,” and while I was there I met up with uber amazing writers Jeannine Ouellette (The Part that Burns), Athena Dixon (The Incredible Shrinking...
by Jayne Martin, Writer | Feb 8, 2021 | Writing Life
We’ve all done it. Said “Yes” to something we did not want. Women probably more so than men. From childhood, we are programmed to please, whereas little boys are programmed to stand up for themselves. This was certainly true for my generation and, while I know that...
by Jayne Martin, Writer | Jan 11, 2021 | Writing Life
I woke up in a fog this morning. Not the usual where my brain needs a leaf blower to clear out the residue from the night before, but an actual pea-soup fog such that the world below my little hilltop bungalow had completely vanished from sight. Many years ago, the...
by Jayne Martin, Writer | Jul 15, 2020 | Writing Life
Saying Goodbye to a Beloved Pet The crow alights on my balcony, perching on the railing, peering inside one window, then hopping around to another, before flying off only to return the next day and the next for a week. It is written that at death, crows are escorts of...
by Jayne Martin, Writer | Apr 8, 2020 | Writing Life
This may seem odd, although that anything in today’s world would be perceived as odd anymore is hard to fathom, but the thing I find myself absolutely fixated on since the deadly Covid-19 uprooted all normalcy has been the absence of air traffic. Such a seemingly...
by Jayne Martin, Writer | Dec 3, 2019 | Writing Life
The holidays, that joyous time of year when you get stuck talking to relatives and strangers you would otherwise avoid at parties you didn’t want to attend. Be prepared. 1) Have you written anything I’d know? I don’t submit to Trucker’s World 2) I’ve...
