Turns out writing books takes a village too
Editing is a big part of writing; and sometimes, the best advice comes from family. These edits are by Ellie, my granddaughter, who is now at UNC-Chapel Hill studying law. Thanks, Ellie!
Family
Sometimes a t-shirt and smiles are the best medicine
I was sick, very sick. So they came to cheer me up with a “Get Well Soon” T-shirt painted especially for me on my birthday. It’s a lovely T-shirt, and I still have it. But the absolute joy that morning didn’t come from a shirt. It came from these happy faces and my wanting to […]
Lesson learned: it’s not the tools.
“I’ll never make it to the Majors with this mitt,” I said. “Your glove is fine,” my parents replied. “If you want a new glove, get a job and pay for it with your own money.” So that’s what I did. At age ten, I got my first job. I washed mugs in a root-beer […]
Would you call this kid curious or bored?
He looks bored to me and a bit fed up with it all, like, “When will these people stop talking and just give me an answer.” This kid might be thinking, “Why do so many adults go around Robin Hood’s barn in such an indirect way to get to their destination when all I want […]
There was gold in Alaska, he was told.
Would you let your son head off to Alaska looking for gold when he had only finished grammar school and then, out of money, take a job building telephone offices in Seattle, Washington, when phones were unheard of, and he didn’t know the first thing about electricity? My grandparents did, and my dad got his […]
Mom stories: a day off at the shore.
Would you have let your daughter go to a place you had never been and never even heard of to live with six other girls in a dormatory over the drug store on Collins Avenue and spend her days putting plugs into jacks on a switchboard so fancy real estate men could sell white sandy […]