HOW DID I GET HERE? ADVICE FOR NEW WRITERS!

How Did I Get Here? Advice for New Writers By JAN DARLING Writer Beware – these two words should be embroidered on the swaddling and delivered with every babe who will later decide to be a writer.  Between stork beak (my mother told me a stork delivered me) and book I was educated, worked for…

DID ALZHEIMER’S KILL MY MOTHER?

Did Alzheimer’s Kill My Mother? By JAN DARLING Probably her death was not directly caused by Alzheimer’s Disease.  But that it shortened her life is certain.   I now believe that it made its first appearance easily ten years before her death.  Every so often she would ask me how long to cook something – something…