June 11, 2014
After a semester off, I purposely came back for another round of more grueling mental work. Finally, after much agony, I decided to enroll in my third graduate class in writing. I’m usually decisive, but each semester, I battle over whether I should take another class. And then I try to analyze if the struggle proves that it’s […]
Read More →September 13, 2013
It’s always fun when someone surprises me by blogging about my book! Here’s the message the blogger sent me: “I couldn’t wait to get your book and went to my P.O. box last night and smiled. Yes, it had arrived. That said, I just had to post this because the Spirit called me to . […]
Read More →August 21, 2013
On August 22, 2008, I gave birth to a healthy 12-ounce book. That was five years ago. As the final days of 2007 drew to a close, I submitted my original manuscript to the publisher. And then I waited. It felt like I was expecting a baby elephant. My grueling eight-month gestation period was actually […]
Read More →July 12, 2013
A couple weeks ago I wrote that I was taking my potential masters degree program one class at a time. Well, this is not the time and Rhetoric is not the class. After getting an “A” in my first endeavor, I dropped my second one. It turns out the heavy workload for this so-called “five-week” […]
Read More →June 26, 2013
This summer has been an experiment for me. I knew I needed to have a plan to avoid repeating last summer, with its days that inched along, slow minute by slower minute, on a campus devoid of its purpose and vitality – its students. To have something, anything, to do last year, I had volunteered […]
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