Writing Full-Time versus a Day Job

Writing Full-Time versus a Day Job

The Rambling Writer quits teaching—well, almost… I knew from an early age that I would be a writer. I wrote my first (illustrated) science fiction story at six, and when my Grandma Sara played the card game “Authors” with me, I vowed to be a Real Author like Nathaniel...
I’M GLAD I DIDN’T CHOOSE POTTERY

I’M GLAD I DIDN’T CHOOSE POTTERY

  This summer as I visit the Idyllwild Arts program, I realize that it has been twenty-five years since I first visited the campus. I am accompanying my friend to a jazz concert in which her teenage son is performing. The first time I came as a student myself....
Full Strength Ahead

Full Strength Ahead

Ugh . . . marketing! I knew this day would come and I’m not prepared. Well, maybe a little prepared. After all, I have an MA in Communication and took at least one undergraduate course in Public Relations with my all-time favorite professor, Bob Vivian. He was...