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...
by Carole Duff | Aug 5, 2024 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Though I wasn’t going to tolerate my step back from last weekend, I wasn’t entirely sure how to turn it into two steps forward. Until I read Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 4:1-3 (NASV 1995) Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner...
by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Part of me wished I could rewind and take back what I said to Keith on Friday night after happy hour. “I’m done with your criticism,” I said screamed and side-ways sliced the air with my hand. I’d mismanaged the dogs again, and they’d taken off running. Before Keith...
by Carole Duff | Jul 15, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
As Marta spoke to the congregation at the end of the service yesterday morning, I marveled at her capacity to share her painful story. She’d run away from a terrible home situation at age 13 and was on her own for weeks before being taken to a police station. There...
by Carole Duff | Jul 8, 2024 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
“What specific species is that?” our neighbor asked about a tree with a branch of leaves turning reddish yellow. We were eating a 4th of July Eve dinner—grilled brats, Keith’s baked beans, potato salad, slaw, and garden cucumbers—on the dining deck. “I’m not...
