2021 January

Eliza Doolittle – Me….

I finished my last draft! Next, professional editing. Eighteen months – over 2,100 hours of research, writing, editing, classes and reworking the story. Still struggling with the title, but it’s ready to hand off to a real editor. I’m the Eliza Doolittle of the writing world, an unpolished fraud attempting to find my way in – to tell […]

Cancer Surgery In Times of Covid-19

I couldn’t have chosen a worse time, but for the third time in 20 years I needed a major abdominal surgery to right-size my disease. My wonderful oncologist could no longer tackle with job with pills and maintenance chemotherapy alone.  With inpatient COVID-19 volumes rising, the hospital made a policy decision to ban visitors, including family, so it […]