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Category Archives: Travel
Gifts That Are Hard to Take: Trip to Woodstock, Part I.
It’s a new week. Time for one of those I’m-turning-50-gifts that I’m giving to myself in April. This gift comes in the form of a new challenge – to drive 200+ miles to New York to participate in a page … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Overcoming Fear, Panic Disorder, Performing, Public Readings, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Travel, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged Anxiety, Bennington College, Catskill Mountains, Home, Kidney infection, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Turnpike, Monologue Performance, New York, New York City, Page to Stage, Peeing, Pit stop, Turning 50, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Writing
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50 Gifts for My Birthday
On my desk at work rests a photo of my father and step mother in their early 50s. As my 50th birthday approaches at the end of April, I try not to over think that photo taken in 1986 at … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, art, Cats, Coffee, Dancing, Death, falling in love, Rabbits, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Sex, The Beatles, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged AARP, Arts, Beatles, Birthday, Chicago, Experience, Facebook, Love, Middle Age, Old Age, Rabbit, sex, Spending Money, Stepfamily, Travel, Turning 50, Turning fifty, Wisdom, Writing, Youth
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The year in pictures and thoughts
I want to thank all the readers of “The Early Draft,” both my friends and those I don’t know who are now stumbling upon my writing. I’m excited to tell you I’ve had thousands and thousands of hits and my … Continue reading
How do you write happy?
How Do You Write Happy? Lately I’ve been acknowledging how good my life is. Maybe some of you out there do this all the time, count your blessings, write down all the positives about your life: I love my children, … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Agoraphobia, falling in love, Flirtation, Getting Older, lesbianism, memories, Miracles, Overcoming Fear, Panic Disorder, Travel
Tagged Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Colorado Springs Airport, Dorothy Allison, Jupiter, Laura, Luggage, New York City, Pine Manor College, Puget Sound, Seattle, Whidbey Island
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Once an Agoraphobic…
Hello. My name is Cindy and I’m an agoraphobic. Thirty years have passed since I’ve uttered the words “panic disorder” and “agoraphobia” as many times as I did this summer. A challenging trip to Colorado in August led to this … Continue reading
Posted in Airplanes, Miracles, Overcoming Fear, Panic Disorder, Travel, Writing
Tagged Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Colorado, Dorothy Allison, Health, Mental health, Panic attack, Pine Manor College
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Luggage and Baggage
June 23rd, 2011 on a plane to Seattle: I am flying across the country on a 737 Alaska Airlines jet to Seattle to visit my friend and fellow writer, Erika Sanders. We will be staying on Whidbey Island, a long … Continue reading
Posted in Airplanes, Death, memories, Overcoming Fear, Panic Disorder, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Alaska Airlines, Luggage, Puget Sound, Seattle, Suitcase, Travel, Washington, Whidbey Island
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