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For the past four months, my attention has been captured by myriad technical and not-so-technical snafus I’ve encountered while working to get a Second Edition of my book (At Home on the Kazakh Steppe) both digital and print. It has been … Read More
As I collect the various Deleted Scenes to create a small eBook, I’m finding a few I’d like to recirculate. And rewrite! Here’s one from April, 2013, called Finding Serenity. This time around, I’m calling it: Flexibility, patience, and a sense of … Read More
Four women came from different parts of the country to join me in my rental property on Chincoteague Island, Virginia last week. It quickly came to be known as the CincoChincoChics Retreat (first annual?) We were together seven … Read More
What’s the difference between a sabbatical and a respite? Merely length of time. I’m down at the Chincoteague house, the house that Woody and I renovated in 2001, and from which we were returning to … Read More
This is the blog where I set out on paper (virtual paper), how I plan to pursue my life in the coming year. And not just in the field of social media. FYI: I’ll tell you flat out I’m … Read More
The blogosphere of late has been filled with lists of resolutions for the new year. I don’t mind them. I actually enjoy peeking into other people’s psyches. And after reading ten or twenty of them, … Read More
This blog had 8,700 views last year. I tell you, I was floored when I learned that. All year, as I prepared my blog posts, I focused on 1. publishing regularly, in my case every Wednesday 2. ending … Read More
My blog this week was to be an essay on the similarities between my memoir of my two years teaching English and living in Kazakhstan as an older, married Peace Corps volunteer (At Home on the Kazakh Steppe) and … Read More
My guest this week is a young college student, Halie Putorek, whom I first read of in an article she wrote in her school paper about her trip to Tanzania. I loved how she addressed the cultural differences she found … Read More