What’s the value of music for a girl’s emotions? Everything. We watched the Masterpiece Theater version of A Room with a View last night and laughed every time Lucy Honeychurch turned to the piano to vent her emotions. It was an uneasy laugh–we recognizing aspects of our past. My sister-in-law told me once she only survived her rocky teen years…
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WWI: a YMCA Worker’s Camel Tale
What a YMCA worker did in Egypt and Israel during WWI.
The Relief of a Public Shout
Have you ever needed to shout in public? You know, stand up and ask for attention from a group of total strangers? People stop and stare, then shrug and go on their way. But some listen and act. Whenever I’ve shouted, relief has been the result. The first time happened many years ago when this Navy wife rode a car, train, airplane…
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The Hunt for Red October and My Family
Why one Navy family needed a copy of The Hunt for Red October
Exercise and the Writer’s Body
You already know the value of regular exercise, but I’m going to explain how exercise has been so good for this particular writer’s body. In late 2009, my hands stopped working effortlessly. Simple things I’d done my whole life hurt, badly. I couldn’t turn doorknobs without pain. Scissors were a nightmare. I could no longer hold a needle well enough…
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Exercise and the Writer’s Mind
The woman who teaches my exercise class had her eye on me yesterday. “You need to keep your mind engaged on what you’re doing here, not on what’s happening after you leave class,” she said. I laughed. I’m notorious for missing a step because while my body is dancing zumba, my mind is often elsewhere. I’ve written before about the…
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