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‘Ushered’ Birthday Simply Unforgettable
On Saturday morning, around 10:30 a.m., the day of the Usher concert, I stretched and looked out of our high-rise hotel window at towering casinos on the strip. “We got a good view of the parade later,” I said to Ron, referring to the Stanley Cup Victory Parade for...
Sunday’s book club chat
Sunday’s book club chat with Maya and Zora Smart was all the motivation I needed to write my first blog post in years. Talk about full circle moments. Zora, 9, had no idea how much she inspired me to finish my debut novel, Malcolm and Me, which was released Nov....
Robin’s Close-UP: Helene Wagner on Screenwriting
The exquisite scripts written by Helene Wagner serve as a template for many writers, myself included. I adore the founder of the Virginia Screenwriters Forum. She is a mentor not only because of her award winning, produced and optioned screenplays, but because she...
ROBIN’S CLOSE-UP: Rebekah Pierce — A Word Entrepreneur
I so admire Rebekah Pierce’s entrepreneurial spirit and endless creativity. And her realness, which I experienced when she checked her email and saw that Debbie Allen had agreed to read her screenplay as a possible directorial project. She wept tears of gratitude as...
On A Whim
I never adopted a creative credo, but the accompanying sign in the photo pretty much sums it up: Yield to Whim. I love to. I just don’t do it enough lately. In recent weeks I allowed work and other initiatives to overwhelm me. Schedules and to-do lists are anathema to...
ROBIN’S CLOSE-UP: Anne Westrick on Publishing Her First Book After 50
What do ROOTS, BLACK BEAUTY, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, WATERSHIP DOWN and BROTHERHOOD have in common? The authors were older than 50 when their debut novels were published. So seasoned writers, raise those flagging spirits, lift those graying...