Historical fiction

Human art

Yesterday, out of the gloomy grayness, I started writing my mother's story again. Called 'The Unwilling Immigrant', it's the story of wartime migration. This time, I am writing it from scratch as a historical fiction piece. I didn't know I was going to start writing. I just did. Surprise, surprise. And Joseph Conrad is declared my muse.

'All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.'

- Joseph Conrad

Meanwhile, tomorrow morning I will attend a workshop supported by the Arts Council called A Poem in a Morning with Alice Kinsella at the Linenhall in Castlebar. I will perhaps finally learn what poetry is and whether some of what I've been writing is indeed considered poetry. 

Writer's block

I can't believe I haven't written since May. I've written articles for publication and my blog about sailing, but I haven't had much to say about being a writer. I must have writer's block.

MTV's Daria

She sounds an awful lot like me in high school. I loved that show. My husband thinks it was modeled after me. 

“

I don't have low self esteem ... I have low esteem for everyone else.

”

Proofreader's marks

I love this. Borrowed from Facebook. I love Grant Snider and his Incidental Comics FB page. 

A poem

A note about semicolons...

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I’m pretty sure when I need a comma; I’m not so sure about a semicolon."

KEITH HERNANDEZ, a former Mets first baseman who has built a devoted following on social media and written a memoir.


From the New York Times 11/05/18

Ukrainian Scouting

Vodnyj Tabir c1971 Stillwater Reservoir (I'm on the bottom right.)

In reading an interview with Sylvia Acevedo, the new CEO of Girl Scouts in America, I was reminded of the conundrum of growing up Ukrainian in America. We did not sell cookies. We had wilderness training.