Whether I am writing a fifty-word “Tiny Love” piece to submit to The New York Times, or a few thousand word essay or short story for a literary journal, I connect my readers to their memories and their hearts. I hope you will enjoy reading a sampling of my short works linked below.
What is it like to re-enter the dating world after a twenty-five-year break? This essay, published in Feminine Collective, will give you one woman's experience. You might laugh, you might look away, and it might give you a boost to carry on.
Dianne captures life on the farm in this piece where she shares the excitement and disappointment of caring for an animal she adopted. Story located on pages 42 through 45 of the digital document (pages 40 through 43 of the actual document).
Co-workers first, friends second is a hard lesson to learn when it involves a best friendship. In this touching essay with a curious title, "A Banana and a Condom Walk Into a Workplace," published in the literary magazine, Volney Road Review, we get an inside view into the treasure of a workplace friendship and the heartbreak of how it often ends.
The essay, "The Old Porch," tells us about the value of revisiting youthful memories in our mind and not in person. Published in HerStry, an international lit magazine, it takes its place next to the work of women around the world, telling stories about love, loss, friendship, and other human conditions.
One of my essays was selected for publication in the Tenth Anniversary Anthology, Dove Tales Literary Journal. Graphing Forgiveness is an essay that tells the story of a little girl looking for the essence of her father, in his neatly organized desk. She hopes to find a way to forgive him in the process.
At sixteen in the late special ‘60’s I earned a special position at my job because I was pretty. Pretty. The boss said, “I always have my pretty girls sit up front.” This idea of achieving because I was pretty felt wrong at sixteen. And this essay is inspired by that experience. I am honored to have my work featured in the always relevant, Alpha Female Society Journal.
Oh, Yvonne… This is a short story published by the amazing journal, Button Eye Review. A thought, when you accept a date from an unknown person, say, someone you meet online, are you careful to tell a friend where you are going?
It has been a thrill to be published in Across the Margin and featured on its podcast. From the start of this essay, the reader knows where they’re bound. No surprises. The journey guides us through an unconventional love affair, one for which I exchanged youthful experiences and in the end, as expected - a life alone. What is love worth? Before Lunch was selected as a “Best of 2021” essay in the December 2021 issue.
Single parenting must be funny, or we would implode! The remarkable journal, Feminine Collective published this essay that tells the experiences of a young single mother who more or less grew up with her kids. My mother wanted me to be a confident woman. Raising my two daughters was an adventure in learning. The most memorable moments involved humor as Pies on the Sidewalk explains. This essay won the 2017 contest sponsored by the Listen To Your Mother organization.
