writer's life

Defying the Odds

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 […]

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writing inspiration

A kind of magic

“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 […]

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