Writing – Small Writer at Large

END-OF-YEAR REFLECTIONS

As 2025 closes and a new year begins, I am – finally, hallelujah! – writing the last chapter of my epic historical fiction Netsuke novel/trilogy. After a year filled with challenges, blessings and slow-but-sure transformations, I look forward to 2026.

Postscript: My Lemonade

Another pithy saying people often blithely use is: ‘When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.’ Being that I am a writer, the only thing I know how to do with all the sh** that has happened this year — first my dad’s death, then my husband’s a few short months later — is to write about it.Continue reading “Postscript: My Lemonade”