“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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On Memorial Day
‘Decoration Day’, my mother called it. She had been taught of it as a child, a teaching I do not recall being passed to me. It was only a holiday for much of my life. Then came the years I began to understand, but still thought it meant all veterans. It doesn’t. It honors those…
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Books I’m Reading
Make Your Bed, by Admiral William H. McRaven, USN Retired. It was the subtitle: Little things that can change your life and maybe the world that drew me in. I went straight and downloaded the sample of the book onto my Kindle library and read the first of it. I was so captivated that I…
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Persistence
Years ago, well before my writing days and when my son was small, I designed and sewed an appliqued quilt for his bed. About half way through the creation, I put it aside. I don’t recall what was going on in my life, perhaps the big organic garden, or perhaps I was simply tired. The…
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I Finished! The End!
I finished the novel re-write on Friday. Actually, it was such a re-write as to be a completely new book after consulting with an editor. Was it two years ago? More? Whoo-hoo! Like the turtle who finally gets across the road without being flattened, what a relief, and a joy, and a sense of gratitude,…
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Breathe and Write
“Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” ~ Julia Cameron, author, artist, poet, teacher, wise-woman. I once knew a very, very famous writer, who, so she said, made the rule for her children that they were not to interrupt her…
“Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 