

Writing, Woman Power, Serendipity, Friendship, Connection, Part 2
Picking up from last week's newsletter, recounting reunion of our 80's writer's group, 22 years after last meeting! Above: L-R Lee Darby,...


On Connection, Friendship, Serendipity, Woman Power, Writing.
And GRATITUDE! Thank you all for your responses to my query about book last week. Tried to get back to each of you; forgive me if I...


Need your help: Which book would you buy?
Last Saturday, March 31st, I had the privilege of speaking with a number of editors and agents about My Stroke of Luck, the book!! YES!...


It's a wrap: gratitudes and lessons from My Stroke of Luck
Couldn't resist Bearded Collies bearing eggs, eggs being the ancient symbol of the earth, creation and life energy, the pagan symbol of...


"How did you recover so well?"
"It's hard to believe you ever had a stroke!" After almost every performance, an audience member asks a variant of that question. And...


"What were the first few months after your stroke like? And rehab?"
Of the first few months after my stroke, I have mainly sense and image memories, rather than verbal ones. Some of my senses were...


"Shouldn't you have gone to the hospital right away?"
"If you had another stroke, would you go to the hospital sooner?" More audience questions after performance of My Stroke of Luck. Yes,...


"You seem like there's nothing wrong with you."
"Thank you!" That's an observation an audience member makes at every Talkback. Then comes the question of how I am different since my...


So, what keeps an artist going through the down times?
Happily back to performing My Stroke of Luck at The Marsh, San Francisco after a two- week break. YES! So, down times, can't really own...


"You couldn't even talk straight! Why didn't anyone tell you?"
Who says they didn't tell me? That might seem a flippant answer to an earnest question, asked by an audience member following a recent...