Our youngest, Daughter #4, who grew up to be the wonderful writer Sara Marian, and I lerrrrrrvvvv writing exercises! Whenever we’ve done a two-person mini-retreat or have roomed together at a writing workshop, we’ve done exercises. More often than not, we’ve ended up with stories,…
Many long years ago, I posted this story on my blog. It got slammed with views periodically, particularly from India. The search terms were variations on the title, which is “Personal Essay — My Mother.” I finally figured it was from people studying English, trying…
Amidala speaking. MaMA was gone too much over Christmas, of course, instead of being home petting me, but Santa Claws came and brought me a bunch of stuff! I believe she must have helped Santa pick those out, because they’re all stuff I told MaMA…
