I met him the day after Christmas. He was a college student visiting a close friend of his, my roommate’s fiancé. From our first meeting we were drawn together. Soul mates. We wrote letters. We telephoned. In those pre-Internet days, over an 80 mile distance, we courted. And we fell in love. The day he [...]
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No Words
Posted in Love, tagged life's journey, Living life fully, Loss and Bereavement, Love, postaweek2011, soulmate, travel on December 18, 2011 | 52 Comments »
On the 18th of April…
Posted in Love, Writing Craft, tagged Anniversaries, conflict, Fiction, Fish out of Water, Marriage, postaweek2011, Roger Ebert, Romance on April 17, 2011 | 27 Comments »
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. [...]
A Writer’s Valentine
Posted in Commitment, Love, Marriage, tagged Love, postaweek2011, Romance, Valentine's Day on February 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My passion is writing romance. I grew up on boy meets girl stories. I watch romantic movies, read romance novels, and write happily ever after stories. For years, I’ve been a member of Romance Writers of America©. Most of my close friends read and/or write romance. Finally, and most important, I have been married to [...]
Glamour Girl
Posted in Love, Pantser, Reflections on January 15, 2009 | 10 Comments »
She was born in her grandmother’s cabin on the desolate plains of northern Minnesota. Such a setting brought to her an intense longing for glamour and romance. She found it in novels, Hollywood movies, with friends and, for a time, in each of her marriages. She lived in six states and visited many more. She [...]
Defending Marriage
Posted in Commitment, Love, Marriage on November 7, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Romance novels are about relationships, about two people overcoming obstacles and working to establish trust. Romance Writers of America (RWA), writes that in a romance lovers “risk and struggle for each other…and are rewarded with emotional justice and unconditional love.” In a romance novel, with its happily-ever-after outlook, the story often ends with a marriage, [...]








