A friend who recently moved to the Midwest to be with her daughter and toddler grandson sent me an email today. Part of it read,  “… it’s always a joy to see my grandson, as active, bouncy, and as curious as he may be but I’m really quite exhausted and at this point would

People sometimes ask if I’ve thought about publishing a selection of my blogs in book form.  Naturally, I’m flattered, just as I am when they suggest my novels would make great movies. Such notions don’t swell my head. Steven Spielberg, I know, won’t be calling soon. 

Virtue isn’t always a blessing, no matter what the devout might think.  Take humility, for example.  That got me into trouble last week. I wrote a blog, tongue-in-cheek, about an email from my web designer.  She was seeking information about the site.  As she’d provided the de

Recently, I received an email from the person who designed my web page.  “Caroline, is it possible for me to receive your blogs two or three times a week instead of one every day?” Can she?  I don’t know.  She created the site.  Never mind, I understood what she wanted.  �

I live two lives, one as a writer of books and the other as a blogger.  I love both.  The memoir I’ve been working on has been intensely satisfying.  But to complete the memoir, I’ve obliged my readers to live on blog re-runs.  I am thankful for their patience.  During the in

Today marks my 6th year as a blogger, writing 5 days a week (M-F) on the writing life and what other writers have to say about life.  Social commentary is the way I guess you’d categorize what I do,  for those who care about categories.  I don’t.  But I do care about my reader

Yesterday a friend called and by her hesitant manner, I knew she wanted a favor.  Eventually, she got to her point.  She wanted me to have coffee with her friend who was writing her first book and who wanted my advice on how to proceed.  I agreed to meet this friend, of course.  A

I went to hear a marketing/public relations expert make a pitch to writers the other night. My friend Susan Stoner, whose new book, Dry Rot, received a glowing review in our local newspaper, came with me. Both of us hoped to pick up a pointer or two on how to promote our works. The wo