Patience or Perfection?

Patience or Perfection?

by | Mar 1, 2023 | General

Next, I pay attention to my surroundings: the iridescent green of a hummingbird whirring through the eucalyptus leaves outside my window. That enormous hawk I spotted sunning her creamy chest in the sun’s early rays high on a redwood spire. My mother always said she...
Stories are like mushrooms

Stories are like mushrooms

by | Feb 1, 2023 | General

Stories are like mushrooms. Who knows where they start or end?   Perhaps you stumble across one on a walk in the redwoods at dusk after a spring shower has drenched the earth and the conditions are just right. The setting sun streaks the trees in glowing bronze....
Keeping Readers Engaged on a Journey Through Time

Keeping Readers Engaged on a Journey Through Time

by | Sep 14, 2020 | Essays, General

“You make the path by walking on it.” — Antonio Machado In writing Newcomers in an Ancient Land – the story of my youthful quest for adventure, love and self-discovery in 1960’s Israel – one of my biggest challenges was figuring out how to keep readers engaged through...
The Book, the Book, the Goddamned Book

The Book, the Book, the Goddamned Book

by | Feb 22, 2019 | General, Guest Posts

by Irene Sardanis Have you’ve ever taken a well-deserved vacation only to receive an email from your editor saying your manuscript has, well, run off the rails? That news initially knocked the wind out of my good friend and fellow memoirist Irene. But summoning her...