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Unasked Questions
It took a life-altering crisis to make me realize that despite having known my mom for 50+ years, I didn’t know who she was as a person in her own right. I had firsthand knowledge of many of her trials and heartaches, but that only gave me a one-sided view of what her life had…
Books! Books! Books!
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to put “Lucky at Love” on Free Promo thru February 15th to give readers a chance to look at love from Jake Sorenson’s unique perspective. The character of Jake was inspired by a guy I met at a wedding who’d been married and divorced seven times and still…
Talk To Me…
Since before humans had the ability to speak, we had the compelling need to share our thoughts. Pictographs dating back thousands of years have been studied for the information those ancient civilizations wanted to pass on to others. Once we found words, conveying our experiences has become easier, but we seem even more obsessed about…
Weirder Than Fiction
If I were to write a comical accounting of my mother’s many nuptials, I might call it “I do! I did! And I’ll do it again!” Having only one marriage and zero divorces to my credit, combing through my mom’s past was a bit surreal for me, especially when I was forced to acknowledge what…
Forget-Me-Not
If you’re like me, memories are a bit of a puzzle. Why, for instance, do I remember completely inconsequential bits of trivia, yet sometimes have trouble remembering things of vital importance? Or why have some memories from my childhood survived while others have vanished without a trace, regardless of their face value? When I gave…
The Gift
While I was working on “Finding Ruth”, a fear lurked in the back of my mind that my mom would never get a chance to see it. Or if she did hang in there long enough, the Alzheimer’s might be too advanced for her to comprehend the fact that I had written a book about…
Finding Ruth: Confronting The Unexpected
It didn’t hit me until after I found my mom unconscious on her living room floor that I had sold her short by believing I had been privy to every trial and injustice she had been subjected to in her long life. Or to put it another way, I certainly didn’t feel I could accuse…
Finding Mom
If you’ve known a person your entire life, you may believe you really know them. But with parents it can be different; what we as children see is often the side of them we’re meant to see—the side carefully constructed to enforce discipline, stretch our view of the world, impose manners and otherwise prepare us…
Writing, Interrupted
2015… Where to begin? I could say the year just flew by, but unlike productive years in the past, this year—when considered from head to tail—seems entirely too long for the twelve months it encompassed. It will stick out in my mind for many reasons, but most significantly as the year writing was very nearly…