1/24/17 RMB Reading Binge

1/24/17 RMB Reading Binge

Dear Rita Mae Brown,

While the California skies unleash a decade of pent up rain, or so it seems, I keep busy digesting book after book.

Characters like Detective Michael Bennett of Michael Ledwidge and James Patterson’s Alert mix with the wizard Harry Dresden in Jim Butcher’s Fool Moon, while I contemplate the messages in You Can Create an Exceptional Life by Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson. Aside from all that, there are the afternoon lunches with Mary Minor “Harry” Harristeen in your Tail of the Tip-Off.

Is there a such a thing as a reading binge? If so, I guess I am on one. Escaping from the current aftermath of our recent presidential election, reading has become a sort of vacation, vacating from here and all of this, to there and all of that.

My own writing, exercising, yardwork, and other responsibilities, have been set aside for work and research of the human condition, finding out what makes us tick, why we do the things we do. Whether fiction or non-fiction, words written reflect life, not just from the perspective of one individual, but from all of those whose lives that individual has interacted with.

Although my own writing has stalled while I explore that of others, my drive to write is fed and nourished. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I am looking forward to putting pen to page again soon.

Best regards,

Loraine

1/1/17 RMB Following Through

1/1/17 RMB Following Through 

Dear Rita Mae Brown,

Happy New Year to you and yours and any readers sharing this ride with us.

My Delaware friend, Moe, texted this morning that this is “the year of following through”. I like that. It’s time for those of us that want to be writers, to write, to publish in whatever way we wish to see our works published, and for the artists, such as Moe, to draw, to paint, and to create in whatever way brings them joy.

Another way of looking at it is that this is the year of realizing dreams, making them a reality.

Happy 2017,

Loraine