Bladder Infections

Today, I'm still fighting off whatever it is I have.

On Memorial Day, I woke up...how can I put this delicately...peeing blood. Never happened before. Don't want to do it again. My husband took me to the ER of our local hospital where a wooden doctor perhaps missing just a tad of a bedside manner, did not take x-rays nor check my urine -- too bloody--and diagnosed me with a bladder / urinary tract infection. He wrote up a bunch of perscriptions and sent me along my merry way. Hmmm. Okay.
I was out within an hour, home in bed and my husband soldiered along with our day --the big Memorial Day Parade. I missed my first deadline ever as a writer. I was supposed to attend the parade and blog in a minute-by-minute description.

Do I trust the doctor? I swallowed down the pills for the past five days. Blood stopped. But I still feel woosey, not myself. The uroligists office says they can't see me till all the medication is finished, as well as my yearly (a year overdue) gynecological check up.

I'm writing the next column, waiting...

writing life

Fighting an infection and feeling blue today.

I'm grappling with the next phase of my life now. I want to go back to school for my creative writing MFA. I've wanted to do this for sometime now and feel it's a great way to go for me and the family.

I love to write and love to teach.

Sonya Chung

So, when I interview authors these days, I'm going to blog about them, too.

Sonya Chung wrote a lovely novel called "Long for This World." I was mostly intrigued with the way she cut in and out of time and POV through first person and third person.

Her voice at times was more distant and objectively observant, then crisp and faster paced during first person to tell Jane's story of a photo journalist risking her life at times to capture news moments. Very clever novel and a nice woman. Interesting duality in her own life where she lives in busy Manhattan and a quiet little town in Pennsylvania.

Sonya mentioned that she wasn't as comfortable in the short story form and found her place naturally in novel form.

I've had this discussion many times with writers on both sides of the fence -- journalism or fiction. Many agree, not all writers can write both.