The edits on my memoir have returned, so for the next several weeks, I’ll be focusing on rewrites.  I’ve been working on this book for the past two years and, at the current rate, I fear it may take me longer to draft my recollections of past events than to have lived them.  If

While sitting with a guest for tea at the retirement center, a gentleman, to whom I’d never spoken, paused by our table.  “You’re the writer, aren’t you?”  As I strive to be one,  I nodded. “ Well, I wanted to tell you about the greatest opening to a novel I’ve ever r