Archive for April, 2012
|The Five Stages of Backache
Written by Drusilla on April 25th, 2012
Backache.
Thanks to Pilates and good luck, I’ve never suffered much from this common complaint. When I have, I’ve channeled Allison, my Pilates mentor of almost ten years, and focused on making my core do its job. But this time, nothing has worked. I’ve had no alternative but to move through the Five Stages of Backache.
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Filed under Life Matters | Tags: Backache, Bad Back, Drusilla Campbell, Five Stages of Backache
Space
Written by Drusilla on April 12th, 2012
I was surprised to learn yesterday that Earth is not the only blue planet in our solar system. Neptune is also blue but more like an opal than a marble. The blue is methane which for snorkeling and pearl diving purposes is not as good as water. A walk in the rain would be painful. But farther out, in other solar systems there are other planets, there must be…. So what and who cares?
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Just an Ordinary Woman
Written by Drusilla on April 5th, 2012
I met a woman the other day who had read my books and after praising them generously, she went on to tell me that she could never write fiction because she was “just an ordinary woman.” She said more, but I got stranded back where she said she was “just an ordinary woman.” Well, let’s hear it for all the ordinary women who cook the meals and brush the dogs and – yes, it’s true — write the novels.
Filed under Life Matters, Writing | Tags: Drusilla Campbell, Ordinary Woman, writing