Find Your Writing Niche
Women and Adversity: Sally Ride First American Woman in Space
July 13, 2017Women and Adversity: Sally Ride First American Woman in Space In January 1978, NASA chose six women to be astronaut candidates, and Sally Ride was one of them. She was dedicated to science, especi ...
Women and Adversity: Maya Angelou Author, Poet, Actress, Activist
February 23, 2017Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, was “first” in a number of enterprises: * First black female cable car conductor in San Francisco ...
Women and Adversity: Dean Florence Wald Pioneer of Hospice in the U.S.
October 27, 2016Women and Adversity: Dean Florence Wald Pioneer of Hospice in the U.S. After working at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London with Cicely Saunders, founder of the Hospice movement, Florence W ...
Women and Adversity: Dame Cicely Saunders Founder of Modern Hospice
October 13, 2016Hospice has comforted millions of people worldwide, thanks to the persistence, determination and research of Dame Cicely Saunders. This woman was born in England in 1918 of a wealthy family. At ...
Women and Adversity: Maria Toorpakai Pakistan Author, “A Different Kind of Daughter”
September 8, 2016Most of us women in the U.S. have no concept of what it’s like to live under oppressive conditions or under a tyrannical regime. We go to school, buy clothes we like, date and have the freedom ...
Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945
May 12, 2016Women and Adversity: Gabriela Mistral May is National Latino Books month, so I did some research on Latin American writers. I learned that Gabriela Mistral, a poet from Chile, is the first Lati ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Political Writing
December 15, 2015Politics and politicians dominate headlines and television programs, and with the presidential race underway, all media enter the fray. I was asked to write the newsletter for my town when I lived i ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Interviews
December 1, 2015To avoid the dreaded cliché “When the shoe is on the other foot,” I chose “When the shoe moves.” Not that clever, but it’s not a cliché, and it brings me to the topic of this blog. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Foreign Correspondent
November 17, 2015Listening to the reports from Paris this past week made me realize how fascinating it is to be a foreign correspondent. It’s a monumental challenge that requires stamina and determination. Wr ...
FIND YOUR WRITING NICHE: PERENNIALS
November 3, 2015Decades of tear sheets of my printed stories and rejected manuscripts filled my filing cabinet to capacity, and I had to make decisions: what to keep, what to trash. At the first run-through I onl ...