Author: Rus VanWestervelt

• Father’s Day Feast!

  I was blessed with two early-morning hours of writing in solitude. I found the event to unfold in three rather… Read more.

• When the Whirlwind Whips You Back

  I do too much. It’s as simple as that. I never really thought that it affected anybody but me. In… Read more.

• Top five things I’ve missed….

  Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. 🙂 Whew! things are finally cooling down for me. Now that the seniors have graduated… Read more.

• Happy Birthday, Mom

  Happy Birthday Mom. You would have turned 82 today, and not a day goes by that I don’t think of… Read more.

• Happy Mother’s Day!

  I thought this would be a tough week for me, but for this moment, I’m handling things ok. Sunday, May… Read more.

• The Wellness of the Writer: Is It Genre-Based?

  Since mid-March, I’ve been fighting illness after illness–colds, a flu, hacking coughs, interminable sore throats, you name it. No matter… Read more.

• where are my comments?

  For some reason, my comments are dropping out of my posts…I’m getting notification via email that they’re posted, and the… Read more.

• A Difficult Decision

  One of the many questions I pondered during my blogging hiatus was how to pursue publishing my work. Last year,… Read more.

• Your small cabin in the woods

  Georgia Heard calls it your “Querencia” in her book Writing Toward Home, while many others simply refer to it as… Read more.

• Morning Pages

  The term, “morning pages,” has crossed my path many times in the last few weeks. I don’t know if it’s… Read more.