life

Brave New Year

Happy New Year, everyone, and here we all are once again. You might notice that I've made some changes to this blog. I'm not yet done. Perhaps I'll never be done, but I needed a change, and I needed it before the new year started. As many of you already know, the last six months… Continue reading Brave New Year

Memoir

Love Letter To A Young Man In A Foreign Land: Short Memoir

The following "memoir" was published online elsewhere, only the website has since disappeared.  Thus, I resurrect my creative attempt at remembrance here. *** I started this letter many times. And many times I’ve ripped the paper from my notebook, crumpled it into a tight ball and tossed it into the wicker waste basket. The last… Continue reading Love Letter To A Young Man In A Foreign Land: Short Memoir

Fiction · Ficton · Writing

I Am a Debut Writer on We Poets Show It!

I'm very honored to have a story published on We Poets Show It:  http://wepoetsshowit.com/2013/10/31/debut-writer-love-letter-to-a-young-man-in-a-foreign-land-by-marie-ann-bailey/  Like so many of my story or poetry ideas, this one just slowly emerged and then wouldn't leave my head until I wrote it down.  How I came about to write it reminded me that my writing muse is like Nature: … Continue reading I Am a Debut Writer on We Poets Show It!