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Everyone has a story to tell and I can help you learn to tell yours! Who knows, maybe some some summer soon someone will be reading it at the beach! Although not my mother above as she was more likely to be “reading” eligible men in their bathing suits. Join me via Zoom at WritingPadUs … Continue reading Memoir Workshop!!! → Read more of this blog post »

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“the future wasn’t something you planned for; it was something that just happened, like your car spinning out on some black ice and hitting a snowbank, or the telephone ringing with bad news in the middle of the night.”
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“was like a monk whose religion was smoking cigarettes.”
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