This adapted excerpt comes from my forthcoming memoir. I’ve been defying the odds since my terminal cancer diagnosis. Actually, since before the diagnosis. In late January 2011, I had another sinus infection accompanied by some heart flutters. I went to my primary care physician in Williamsburg, Virginia, and as part of his protocol, he drew […]
“Where do you get your ideas?” That question is probably asked of writers more often than any other. Ideas, by their very nature, have a kind of magic–as if springing from some mysterious source. For there is a certain magic about all creative writing, just as there is about any art. The writer or artist […]