Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Writing, tagged bloggers, blogging, book, connecting, design layout, editing, editor, manuscript, posting, publication, writing on May 17, 2013 | 20 Comments »
For the record, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. It only appears that way. You’re probably sick of reading a post in which I say I’m getting back to blogging on a regular basis, and then proceed to, well, blog on an irregular basis. I don’t blame you. I’m getting tired […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Writing, tagged Aerosmith, author, Back in the Saddle Again, blogging, book, books, business cards, cover design, cover mock-ups, crying, done, editing, emotional, emotional resilience, FIGT 2013, final, ISBN, Jane Dean, Jo Parfitt, layout, Lemonberry.com, Lisa Hall, nonfiction, printing, publishing process, recalcitrant, regular blogging schedule, Stephen Tyler, Summertime Publishing, testimonials, writing, writing routine on March 27, 2013 | 18 Comments »
I have been thinking about this post for days, weeks, even months. I’ve longed to be able to write it, but made myself wait. There were times I never thought this day would arrive. Now that it’s here, my thoughts are a (barely) coherent mess and the words are tumbling out on the page. Well alrighty […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Exercise & Sports, Expat Authors & Others, Riveting Expat Reads, Travel, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land, author, blogging, book, books, editing, Heathen Pilgrim, journey, Matt Krause, pilgrimage, self-publishing, Soapbox, turkey, walk across Turkey, walking, writing, writing books on May 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s been awhile since we last met up with Matt Krause, author of the amazingly beautiful A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land (Delridge Press: 2011), a book I wrote about in A Love Song for Turkey and Author Matt Krause on Writing. As long promised, I wanted to share with you Matt’s insightful thoughts […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Netherlands, Writing, tagged editing, expat life, Expatcalidocious, international community, Jo Parfitt, monthly newspaper, Simone Branson Harper, The Hague, The Underground, wordgeyser, writing on November 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley’ Poet Robert Burns’ famous quote basically means that even the best laid plans can head south, go awry, fall to pieces. Recently I’ve been reminded of this sage advice. While (almost) nothing goes on my schedule that I don’t agree to, I do not completely control […]
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