Hi Darling Ones, I’ve been blogging for 21 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days, and for the first time in my entire blogging career? practice? habit? Anyway, for the first time ever my…
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21 Years of Writing I Will Dare.com
Dear Darling Ones, Today is the 21st anniversary of this blog’s existence. What stuns me the most when I think about the beginning is that Bill Clinton was president when I started I Will Dare…
The COVID Diaries: And Here We Come to the End
Dear Darling Ones, Here we are. This is the end of the COVID Diaries, a project I started on March 19, 2020 out of the need to cope with everything going on. Writing is how…
The COVID Diaries: He Has Risen
Hi Darling Ones, In the middle of my many and varied pandemic depressions, I ordered a tradescantia nanouk named Travis. I’ve mentioned him before. What I don’t think I told you is that the first…
The COVID Diaries: On One Entire Year of Screaming Inside My Heart
Dear Darling Ones, Today marks an entire year of the COVID Diaries. This was a project I started because I didn’t want to forget what it was like to live in unprecedented times. I wanted…
The COVID Diaries: So Long Sweet Valley, Hello Hootenanny in E
Hi Darling Ones, When I was 18 I read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving for the first time and it changed my life. After that, I quickly read every book by John…