Nancy's Blog

I have just finished a terrific book, Kathryn Stockett's THE HELP. Set in the early 1960's in Mississippi, the book's protagoni...

Autism used to be like pregnancy -- you either had the condition or you didn't. But updates to medical science eventually recognized th...

For those of us who were young in the '60's, the mention of "Hair" brings up memories of the musical. But these are more ...

LIGHTSPEED took my story "Eliot Wrote" within five hours of my (finally) uploading it. Again, thank you all for your offers of he...

Thanks to -- or perhaps despite -- all the suggestions I received for finishing my story that wasn't working right at the end, I did fin...

A few blogs ago I wrote about my writing dry spell. Since then I started, persevered, and finished a story, but the story isn't working...

I like country music. The reasons for this are (1) I do not have a sophisticated musical ear, and (2) the songs tell little stories. So I ...