Five Years a Writer

56 years ago , my parents gave me a typewriter for Christmas.  38 years ago , I began my career in corporate communications.  20 years ago , I began teaching communication skills to college students.  5 years ago , I left full-time work to live the rest of my life.  This fall , I will launch my handbook on how to be a writer in four steps. I have never been pregnant but I am feeling the anxiety and thrill of that point in time when, if I were pregnant, I would be beginning to tell other people of this amazing experience taking hold of me and of what I will bring forth into the world in a matter of months. I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen, I can feel it, but so much can still go wrong between now and the expected moment down the line… I hope the analogy is not in poor taste. I am quite definitely not birthing a baby, but I am planning to deliver my first ever book into the world this fall. This feels at once intensely personal and wildly public. I have spent years...