Why Fountain Pens?

fountain pen My life-long love affair with fountain pens began in my father’s law office in downtown Brooklyn. When I was a little girl, he would sometimes take me to work with him in the summer. Everyone there was enamored of the new “ball-point” pens. But I would...

Where do your story ideas come from?

Month: March 2014 Everywhere and anywhere. A quotation from the Bible, a news report that makes me wonder “What if – 7 centuries back;” or perhaps a line or two of poetry – the beginning of a story – will pop into my head and I’ll think, “Oh! Where did you come from?...

The Flower Mandalas

mandala Many of my Journal stories begin with flower mandalas, most of which come from my poetry journals. Whenever I begin a new journal, I go through a kind of dedication ritual. On the very first page of the new blank journal – each chosen with care to create the...