In Memoir: Letting the Child Speak
In a recent conversation with Shelby Leigh of the podcast, “Small Steps to Self-Love,” I was asked about the use of my childhood voice to describe some of the trauma I experienced that I write about in “The Daddy Chronicles-Memoir of a Fatherless Daughter.” When a...
Let Freedom Ring
Let church bells ring out across the land of the free as Again. Again. Again. We lower our bullet-torn children into the blood-soaked ground of a nation held hostage by the gods of Glock, and Smith and Wesson. By a government on its knees before the crotch of the NRA....
When Stars Align…
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...
A New Review of Tender Cuts
It’s nice to still be getting reviews like this on the two-year anniversary of Tender Cuts.
Flash Fiction Mind
I have a flash fiction mind - The link between writing flash and writing movies. Roz Morris and I had a lively conversation about flash fiction, screenplays, and all things writing. We talked about the link between writing movies and flash fiction: My flash fiction...
The Power of No
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...
The Power of Choice
Our physical, mental, and maybe most important, spiritual interconnections with the rest of our human inhabitants forms the fabric of life on which we all depend. Lately, the world has seemed to be one big crap-fest…
As the Crow Flies
Saying Goodbye to a Beloved Pet
Concentration in Times of Stress
I have the attention span of a gnat these days. Although, knowing nothing about gnats other than their persistence at annoyance, maybe that’s not a good example. I would look for other examples, but I can’t concentrate long enough. I was thrilled to finally have time...
Observations from Single Life in Quarantine
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...
Jayne’s Latest Book
A Lobster Walks Into a Laundromat
”None of the women could recall when the lobster first appeared, his large claws clacking against the floor as he folded his laundry along with the rest of them.”