"I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one to shred oranges and scrub the floor."
--D. H. Lawrence
Molly Cook...her thoughts, opinions, writing tips, and whatever else crosses her quirky mind...
"There are two kinds of people in the world: the ones who listen to 'Body & Soul' and
the ones who can talk right through it."
--Jewel Hailey, Listen
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Pop Quiz for Writers and Everybody Else
1. If you wish to be a writer, what are your favorite words? Not the meanings of the words or what they signify, but simply the sounds and sense of the words
on your tongue.
2. If you wish to be a writer or a plumber or a fisherman or anything else and you are not doing it, why not?
3. What are you waiting for?
4. When was the last time you sent a handwritten letter to a sweetheart, favorite relative or friend?
5. If good luck is nothing but being in shape to act with the universe when the universe says "Now!" (John Gardner), what kind of shape are you in?
Molly's new novel...
The Greening
of Coral McCabe
A war that won't end...
a woman stranded in the past...the backbeat of the blues...and an overdue road trip home...
Photo by Ron Petersen
When Coral McCabe was twenty-two, she made a promise.
For thirty years, she kept that promise.
Then life - and the blues - got in the way.
