As the old adage goes, “a watched pot never boils.” Neither does a watched mailbox ever yield whatever it is you’re expecting. When my book We Wait You was due after my nine-month publishing gestation, I walked out to the mailbox every day, full of hope, only to have it crushed when I realized the […]

I received a funny message from my website the other day. A gentleman in the U.K. had searched the web for a company in London called We Wait For You. This service provides people to come to your house and do the waiting that we all hate to do –  for the plumber, electrician, or deliveries – […]

My photo from the newspaper article Finally, after months of networking in a new and unfamiliar locale, things are starting to come together for my fledgling (and not-yet-profitable) writing career. A new friend has been coaching me in The Unwritten Rules of the South. She scared me into realizing that if I don’t network slowly […]

Whenever people ask how my husband and I like being retired, I’m quick to tell them that Steve’s retired but I’m just unemployed. But that’s not actually true. It’s not that I’m not working; it’s just that I’m not making much money and I’m working from home. Put those two things together and it feels like […]