Spring “Cleaning”

Ask anyone who knows me and they would tell you I hate house cleaning. I love to cook, I don’t mind grocery shopping and doing laundry. But I despise cleaning. All of a sudden this weekend it hit me: spring cleaning is a lot like Lent (which, I must admit, I haven’t been too diligent about…

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Words of Encouragement

I was teaching a publishing course to continuing ed students at Cecil College again this past weekend and before I started, one of my students approached me, excited. She was usually quiet, shy, and during the past few weeks of the fiction writing class I was teaching, having difficulty getting pen to paper (or sentences onto…

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