In 2013, I logged my first blog post, here on WordPress blog. It was in name only that I referred to the space with personal essay as I was developing skills as a memoir writer that led me to publication of my first book, Under the Birch Tree, a memoir.  An author home page in support of the blog followed. From there, my writer life took off, from writing personal essay to memoir to fiction.

Soon, it was time to settle into new space.

This past fall, I’ve done a lot of migrating. I left WordPress, the blog, and the author page, for this new website. 

An Introduction

My new writing platform— you may have heard of it—is called Substack.

This platform has allowed me to welcome new visitors and to feed followers the writing and news I have to share.

For all who are reading this, I invite you to come along with me and visit me on Substack at my new home, Come Sit Awhile.

Please join me there and the discussions where you’ll find space to pause, to read, to slow the minutes and find simplicity in a complicated world.  The past decade has been an insightful journey, robust with reflection and insightful lessons learned.

Part of being a writer, and there are many parts! is to never become complacent with the writerly self or the work. It is through the stretching of the writing, allowing it to meander, to flow, to ramble on that a new place to be with more space empowers the writer and the writing to be the best they can be.

For now, thank you for visiting me here. And I hope to see you there . . . to come sit a while with me.