Apr 21, 2026 | Memoir, Music, Writing Life
You know me as a Duranie. The internet knows me as a Duranie —seriously, do a Google search for Chrissie and Duran Duran and AI brings up information about me, not the lyrics to a song they wrote that appears on their first album with my name in it. Freaky! But ever...
Dec 15, 2025 | Writing Life
How did it get to be December 29th already? It seems like only yesterday, I was entering poetry contests, kicking the year off with hopes of making my 50 rejections for 2025. I met my goal, almost double. I had 91 rejections. And 26 acceptances, down a few from the...
Oct 15, 2025 | Writing Life
On Saturday, September 27, Tennessee Mountain Writers had their annual Fall Workshop in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This year’s workshop leader was Darnell Arnoult, who is a masterful writer across genres but focused on nonfiction/memoir for the purposes of our workshop. ...
Oct 15, 2025 | Writing Life
Most of my life in the past six weeks or so has revolved in some way or another around writing. Which is a good thing. On Saturday, September 13, I attended a really interesting, informative online class sponsored by Write Or Die about Small Press Publishing. Since...
Sep 14, 2025 | Writing Life
Sometimes I do things just for fun. Don’t get me wrong. Writing is fun. But writing is also one of my vocations. Just one I don’t make much money at. Scentsy is fun. I get a monthly check from Scentsy, but more times than not, I have spent that much or more on...
Sep 11, 2025 | Writing Life
I mentioned I’ve been busy this summer. There have been entire weeks when I have been home only one day that week and have had something going on that day that kept me from being at home longer than enough time to unpack from one thing and repack for the next thing....
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