I was in the waiting room of the dentist’s office the other day when another patient glanced over and asked…
Category: The Trying Game
When I look back at my elementary school years, some of my fondest memories were the days when the…
This upcoming holiday season many of us will gather around tables with food lovingly prepared and spend precious time with…
When I began writing creatively—during the 1990s when I lived in Connecticut—hoping to get some short stories I had written…
I am so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel to The Debutante Ball. Kristin’s latest novel is The Winemaker’s Wife, an…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
Hey, let me tell you what I’m trying to do at this very moment: prep for my author marketing meeting,…
I read once that air traffic controllers must be able to concentrate in a room where multiple conversations are going…
Halloween is a spook-tacular occasion, what with ghosts, goblins and ghouls ringing the doorbell and phantoms roaming the streets. If…
Usually when I submit an essay or short story for publication to a literary magazine or anthology, and it’s accepted,…