How it started
My first love was Daddy's 1950s Royal typewriter, a beast of a machine. At the age of 10, I pounded on those sticky keys and wrote my way through, over and around the jagged contours of my life.
"Paper your wall with rejection slips. It proves you're a writer." Emmie Mygatt, my grandmother and mentor, toughened me up early, sending my adolescent musings out to literary journals well beyond my reach. As a teenager, my bathroom wall was covered with rejection.
"If you can think of anything else to do besides being a writer, do that." Fiction Writer Geoff Clark's advice to my creative writing class sent some students running toward business degrees. I kept writing.
Decades later, I'm still here behind the keyboard, tapping out the rhythm of daily life in poems, articles, stories, memoirs and blogs. Come sit for a while and I'll share a few tidbits with you. I'm glad you stopped in to visit.
"When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness."
Maya Angelou
