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Opening Those Closed Doors

Posted by beckylevine on 11 Oct 2009 in Bravery, The Writing Path, Writing Fears |12 Comments

I come from a long-lived family. I got to know three of my grandparents well into my thirties, and both of my grandmothers made it past 90. I was lucky in many ways to have them in my life, but one of the more shallow ways in which I like to look at that luck […]

Taking Risks…Come On, Just a Few

Posted by beckylevine on 28 Aug 2009 in Bravery, Getting Organized, The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide, The Writing Path, Writing Fears, Writing Projects |12 Comments

I am by nature an extremely cautious person. I’m also not so good with change. 38 years later, I’m still not so sure my family needed to sell our smallish tract home and move to the much bigger house, on the top of a hill, with an ocean view and a bedroom for each kid, […]

Back on the High Dive

Posted by beckylevine on 24 May 2009 in Bravery, First Drafts |14 Comments

As a child, I was pretty much a wimp. Adventure was something to read about, not to actually participate in. Every now and then, though, something would snap inside me, and I would decide that I was going to do…X. When I was, oh, ten or twelve, X was the act of diving off the […]