March 2024 Newsletter: Scribing: Writing Their Way

Scribing Their Way: The Power of Words

Walking into the residential care facility, I was hit with a flood of emotions. It reminded me of the Park Forest Care Center where my father spent the last years of his life. Even though I hadn’t been to the Park Forest since Dad died in 2017, but now I felt like I’d never left.



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September 2023 Newsletter: Winding Back to Bernstein and Woodward

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When the Watergate scandal hit in 1972 I was in high school. The Washington Post reporters who broke the story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, became heroes. Even in my little high school in a Chicago suburb.

Like others who aspired to follow in their footsteps I worked on my high school newspaper. I got bylines, my name in print. I was hooked.


July 2023 Newsletter: Mission Impossible: It’s Not Over Yet

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Anyone who knows me will probably laugh when they hear I went to see the latest Mission Impossible movie. Yes, I hate movies with violence. No, I don’t particularly like Tom Cruise. But a movie with gorgeously-shot scenes of Rome and Venice? A movie with what is one of the best theme songs ever? That I will go see.



December 2022 Newsletter: Paris and the (Almost) End of a Book Journey

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It didn’t seem possible that I would actually get to go to Paris after all that’s happened these past three years, I did it! Jumped back into the world outside my house.

I joined a wonderful group of women for Paris Cafe Writing run by Patricia Tennison and Joe Pendergast.

We spent our mornings in cafes writing and writing.




March News Letter: Construction, A Book Review and Reading Therapy

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One of the best parts of my new house in Portland is my own writing room. It’s a small space behind the garage but it has a window for sunlight and room for plants, and it’s all mine.


January Newsletter: Goodbye California

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December Newsletter: A New Season

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August Newsletter: Trying to be a rainbow.

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