Just Me

I often take time to review all of the people I am connected with through Facebook and can’t help but smile. There is so much diversity there. I’m connected with family and friends, but also friends from high school, friends from different stages in my life, people I have worked with through writing gigs, people I knew through a writing website, people I knew at various publishing companies and people I worked with through different jobs I have had. There are also people I connect with through writing projects as well as for the purpose of my newsletter. And now I am connecting with people in my capacity as Executive Editor at Twisted Dreams Press. All of those connections tell different stories about various chapters of my life. It is really something.   I should also note that I am connected with others on other social media platforms. I don’t just connect with people on Facebook, because not everybody I know is on Facebook. Some of them mostly use Instagram or TikTok or Blue...

  I once wrote articles for a newspaper called SIGNews, which was published for the Deaf/HOH community. I wrote under the name of Dawn Colclasure. After a few years, they changed things up at the paper, which included changing staff. These changes were a little disruptive and created some problems in the flow of work for the writers. Not only this, but there was also the problem of paying the staff writers for their work. At one point, I got so frustrated with all of the delays that I sent an unpleasant email to my editor. She did not respond in kind; in fact, she blew up at me. I was lucky she didn’t let me go! All the same, I decided to take a break. I just figured that they needed space to get their shit together and so I went on hiatus and just focused on writing books. After I started writing for the paper again, however, the editor did not forget that little tiff we had, and I forever remained on her shit list. I didn’t get a very nice mention in the very last issue of the ...