Clyde had blue eyes that sparkled, and his dimpled smile made me shiver. The only problem was that Clyde was in love with Diana, a pretty petite blonde who always wore perfectly matching skirts and blouses that were store bought from the States, not home-made like my clothes. I knew…
No, this is not about eating well, exercising regularly, getting plenty of sleep… I simply need to feel like I’m younger than my actual age. You’ve seen the aphorisms on Hallmark birthday cards: You’re only as old as you feel or Age is only a state of mind. What if…
The air in the waiting room at the Bilbao International Airport pressed against us, dank and heavy. A greasy stench rose from a counter loaded with plastic containers of Spanish omelets. “Where are they?” I asked, looking around the room. In the far corner, a group of young men, all…
Joan Gelfand, author of You Can Be a Winning Writer Joan Gelfand’s latest book, You Can Be a Winning Writer, charts the four parts of every successful writer’s life: Craft, Commitment, Community and Confidence. The book was published July 15, 2018 at Mango Publishing Group. I…
A while back, I published a story “Is a Good Marriage Good Enough?” about the silence that hung like air in a coffin around my [then] husband and me. I wondered when it was that we ran out of things to talk about. Our good marriage was coming to an…