A week ago, I decided to treat myself to a bit of my heritage by attending the Spring Concert of the Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Minneapolis, MN. Entering the Ukrainian Event Center brought back faint memories of me as a child, hoping the Ukrainian event my parents insisted on bringing my brothers and me to […]
There I sat, waiting for the slow hymn played by the organist to end. I noticed my foot tapping at a rapid pace. C’mon, can’t you play it any faster? As the hymn ended, the pastor introduced me and I walked up to the pulpit. Back in college you couldn’t pay me enough to speak […]
“So, what is it you exactly DO do?” – Young Frankenstein, the movie A couple years back I spent eighteen months holed up in my everything-I-do-for-a-living studio and was hardly able to escape the room as I wrote my manuscript for my first book. My husband would pop his head in the door @ 11:00 pm, tell […]