by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 1, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Have been since my early days at Woolworth’s. Pens, pads, notebooks of all shapes and sizes. Paperclips, sticky notes, file folders. I LOVE them. ~ 365 true things about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 31, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
When my youngest child entered high school and I could see that in four short years I would no longer be tethered to this house and to the school year, for the first time since my early twenties, I began to think about what kind of life I wanted. Have I mentioned that...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 30, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I used to know my own mind. Honestly, I had an opinion about everything. And I charged forth boldly. But something happened along the way, and I entered a period of mostly not knowing. Or not caring. Yikes. I think the something that happened was my allowing marriage...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 29, 2015 | 1 true thing |
It’s true. I deliberate. I stare at words, cross them out, and start again. So I have to come up with ways to get around my brain. In December of 2013 when I was pushing to finish a first draft of my novel, I discovered that if I wrote for word count, I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 28, 2015 | 1 true thing |
It’s not that I want to be a rule-follower. I just grew up that way, but it doesn’t make any sense. It was the sixties, for god’s sake. There was Woodstock. Hippies were cool. But in eighth grade, at a Latin Convention (I know), I snuck out the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When I was born, my parents gave me the name Cynthia Lee Newberry. I grew up as Cindy Newberry, the oldest of five. Those years at home–studying and fighting for the bathroom and following rules–were never going to end. I would never get to live my life....
