by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
What happens to us in our youth impacts the rest of our lives. Sorting that out later in life sets us on a hero’s journey. *** I found the journals while cleaning closets during spring break. Six 9-by-6-inch books written by my new husband’s daughter, who had taken...
by Carole Duff | Sep 2, 2024 | Faith |
A lesson from personal history today, this essay first published in August 20th’s Women Writers, Women’s Books, link here: http://booksbywomen.org/where-are-you-by-carole-duff/ Housebound on a rainy day, my sisters and I play hide and seek. While one sister covers her...
by Carole Duff | Aug 26, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Rough driveway at Vanaprastha 2010 July 1, 2010. While merging into a swirl of traffic on the Baltimore Beltway at Providence Road, my final commute home, I thought about the decision I’d made. I had given up my job, which entailed staying with a colleague during the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 19, 2024 | Writing and Reading |
What looks like defeat could be opportunity. This essay, “The Road to Publication for a Writer of a Certain Age,” was published on Brevity Blog. “Memoir is hard to sell,” the webinar presenter said. “The market is glutted. Does anyone want to read another story about...
by Carole Duff | Aug 12, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
This was the scene on Saturday evening when I was a panelist on Zoom in Hippocampus magazine’s Night of Nonfiction and read from Wisdom Builds Her House. “What you need to know,” I said after Hippocampus Magazine and Books founder Donna Talarico introduced me. “In...