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Day #18

I began Day 18 of National Novel Writing Month having a Skype call with my 3.5 year-old granddaughter, Ofelia. She wanted to show Ralph and me two things. First, her substantial collection of bird feathers, which she would be taking for “Show and Tell” to preschool on Monday. The second was what she called, “My… Read More


Eileen Beha journal

Day #28

In addition to the 40,000-plus handwritten words and nearly 7,000 typed words that I’ll have in hand by the time I finish National Novel Writing Month on Friday, I also have a secret weapon: my writing journals. The poet Deborah Keenan encouraged all of her students to keep writing journals and over the past few… Read More