Welcome to my remodeled website/blog which is still under construction. We ran into a minor glitch with the sign up. My webmaster, Paula, left for business travel and as soon as she returns, she will fix it. As it is now, you sign up but it doesn’t register and you don’t receive the Time to […]
Launch Test
We are testing this upgraded site since the launch is almost done. More to come when it is complete.
Launch Day Approaches
Tuesday is the new design launch for Time to Write Now. My webmaster, Paula Gregorowicz, asked me not to post tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday so she can make the transfer from the old to the new. All my previous posts will be available as always. The menu bar and banner will be different. I’ll have […]
Where Did Maya Angelou like to work?
Maya Angelo did very little of her writing at home. She said that the comfort of her house was too distracting. “Angelou elected to write in the anonymous tranquility of what she described as “tiny, mean” hotel rooms. She typically rented the rooms for months at a time, and arrived early in the morning armed […]
Klinkenborg Writes About Metaphor
My critique partner in Corpus Christi and I are reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg. I’m opening the book at random instead of reading it cover to cover. Today, on p. 43 the topic was metaphor. Klinkenborg states that often metaphors are like “A stage prop, a paraphrase, a clarification, at best, […]
Coloring Books for Grownups New Trend
I’ve read about the new trend for grown-up coloring books. At the Ziggy Marley concert last night a man was selling coloring books for adults with intricate designs of birds and animals.The many reasons for coloring include a need to revert back to simpler days of our childhood, which helps to de-stress. Everyone can do […]
Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert
The Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert last night at Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park was awesome.We had an hour and a half drive home on a week night so we tried to leave mid-way through the concert. But our friend, Debbie Wiggins, took us by the hand and led us back into the swaying […]