Writing Life Stories

Writers or beginning writers talking about Writing We hope to see you on Tuesday, October 20, at the Roswell Library on Norcross Street in R...

This is one of my favorite pictures. Georgia author Terry Kay is signing a book for me. I didn't know him then. I believe he was appeari...

In my ideal world, everyone would read poetry and everyone would write poetry, and as a result, we would all be more sensitive, tho...

Today I met a writer, Lynn Cullen, at an event at the Roswell Library, A Fulton County Library near where I now live. She was the...

moveable kitchen cart After spending a wonderful weekend in the mountains of NC and North Georgia, I came home energized and anxious to writ...

This is Lexie trying to tell me something important. If I could just learn dog language we would have the most interesting conversations.  L...

One of my favorite writers was a southerner named Pat Conroy. When Gay, Stu and I traveled to the coast of South Carolina a few years ago, ...

Pass the word! No matter where you live, you can attend my next writing class on  Zoom . Online classes help us reach writers in distant are...

Join me on Zoom for a two-hour free class on writing about your life. Read more about it here. When you write your life stories, you want to...

If you are like me, you are staying home and trying to isolate yourself from the world where this pandemic is flying around like wildfire. T...

Here I am recovering from COVID and watching the snow falling beautifully. I have survived the virus thanks to having been vaccinated and ha...

Today, while reviewing another blog, I came across this interview done by Paula Canup in February 2011.   It seems such a short time ago, bu...

Glenda Beall with writer Raven Chiong, new member of NCWN-West This past weekend The Festival on the Square was held on the histor...

I was very pleased when Marcia Barnes wrote this review of my poetry book, Now Might as Well be Then. It is published in our hometown newspa...

September means football season, or did, at our house. From the time I married Barry Beall, I knew that Saturday afternoons in the fall mean...

I read a post by Jayne Jaudon Ferrer tonight and I like her subject matter. Her three grown sons have actually made changes in the way Jayn...

At a crossroads in my life, I am thinking about what I want for my last act.  What do I want to do with my one precious life? Whatever stri...