The Invitation

  My dear friend Christine invited me to join her monthly writing group after I moved to Arizona close to where Christine and her husband moved nine years ago. After my first meeting with this insightful group of writers, I knew I had to write about THEM and what their small group had done for me. Need support in getting …

Hallelujah

As a tribute to my Writing Class and Julaina Kleist-Corwin, our exceptional teacher and mentor, I performed my personal rendition of the old Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” today. When I decided to take up writing 18 months ago and discovered this insightful class of accomplished novelists, essayists, poets and yes, even musicians (that’s fellow writer Carl Gamez backing me up), …