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…
My parents in 1943. This week would have been my parents’ 75th wedding anniversary. Just one day after their marriage ceremony in Newton, Kansas, they left for Paraguay, South America, to be medical missionaries. They founded and ran a leprosy compound, treated the poorest of the…
Some time ago, I posted a blog describing a breakup in my family, some of the reasons it may have occurred, and my role in creating the suffering. In response to the post, I received a flood of personal emails and phone calls from close friends and family who had…
My Father and I Sitting Next to One Another Left Front “Anna, you know that I’m writing my memoir. Can you help me fill in some missing pieces? I remember Dad beating me until I was bloody. But do you remember what I did to…?” My…
As I said in a blog earlier this week, Ed and I have been touring Europe with Louis, our 11-year-old grandson, visiting five countries in seven days. When we entered the Notre Dame this afternoon, I sucked in my breath, as memories of my time studying in Paris back in…