WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU’VE LOST YOUR CAR KEYS?
For a few years now my husband and I share one car. Before we “downsized,” anyplace we’d go, we used only one car, the other left sitting in the garage. More on an impulse than through careful...
View ArticleA BLOG ON BLOGGING
Not so long ago, before I got a publishing contract for my literary fiction and had to learn about promotion, I’d heard and read about blogs. Not knowing what a blog is, I thought it was a river in...
View ArticleROOTS IN FINLAND
From the 13th century Finland was part of Sweden. The Russo-Swedish war raged on and off until 1809 when Finland pledged allegiance to Russia’s Tsar Alexander I, but remained an autonomous Grand Duchy...
View ArticleRUBBER GALOSHES AND MOBILE PHONES
When growing up in Finland, I wore mid calf high rubber galoshes, a.k.a. boots. They were black or dark brown, felt lined, and left painful scuff marks on the back of my legs where the edge gnawed as I...
View ArticleCulture Shock
My then husband, the father my two children, was transferred from Helsinki to Geneva. He left before the children and me to look for a house. I followed with my daughter, Linda, six, and my son, Max,...
View ArticleSOME THOUGHTS ABOUT "FILTERS"
After I signed the contract for the publication of THE WOODEN CHAIR with Untreed Reads Publishing, eventually I got to work on the proofs. As I edited my way through the manuscript, I was horrified...
View ArticleGENEVA THE BEAUTIFUL
About half of Leini’s story in THE WOODEN CHAIR takes place in Geneva. Thank you for the chance to take you on a tour of this place, home to me for most of my adult life. I raised my two children...
View ArticleSTAY FIT - KEEP WRITING
My warm thanks to Morgen Bailey for inviting me for the second time to write as a guest on your very interesting blog site. First a disclaimer; I’m not a physician, a nutritionist or a fitness...
View ArticleTHE WOODEN CHAIR AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE
When writing THE WOODEN CHAIR, I drew on my clinical experience as a psychotherapist. Leini, the protagonist in THE WOODEN CHAIR, suffers emotional abuse from her mother, mainly -...
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WHEN A PARENT DRINKS, THE CHILD SUFFERS
Rayne E. GolayAuthor Psychotherapist, drug and alcohol counselor Rayne E. Golay tells parents who suspect alcohol is getting the better of them to consider these questions: - Have you had the...
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