Word of the Week – Miracle

I’m watching the movie of the the 1980 USA hockey team and trying to impart to my children the excitement we had watching that team beat the Russians and eventually win gold. I think my excitement was lost on them, however.
I know what you are thinking. What does a woman making her way toward literary [...]

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Word of the Week – Cookie

The word “cookie” is derived from the dutch word “koekje.” So cookies are dutch. I never batted an eye at the dutch, now my sister is practically Dutch. Well, she’s not really practically Dutch, but she lives in the Netherlands, so she could be considered practically Dutch. This has nothing to do with the fact that [...]

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Word of the Week – rejection

It happened this week. Well, it happened last week that I received another rejection. Yes, rejections are part of the writing game. The hard part about this one was I’d already received the rejection for the piece from that publication in July. I’m not exactly sure what happened. I didn’t send a note back saying, [...]

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