On my phone when I arrived home tonight...
Friend:
Debbie, we need to talk! Seriously!You are going to be rich and famous w/your amazing writing and personality! Happy hour at my place across from library. When are u working in town? I have to show you what a success my daughter’s friend has become. Reminds me of you!
Me:
Made me laugh. I can handle rich 🤪 it’s the famous I can’t handle. I love my anonymity.
Friend:
Seriously, I want to show you a possibility. This friend has gone viral!!! Is that the word?? Lol?? I’m sure it’s been financially rewarding! Maybe u should gather a portfolio of your essays and participate in the JH Writers’ Conference this summer. Editors there!
So, my friend has friends, good friends, talented friends. Friend will be in LA over the holidays. I will get with friend after the new year. Friend is gifted, seriously, but I don’t want to ‘out’ friend just yet.
The main reason I’ve not started a blog - fear. I’m happy, why jeopardize the peace and happiness I’ve found? You guys are my comfy little audience.
Before I moved to WY, I jokingly told one of my alphabet agency friends if he would do the publicity, I would handle the writing.
I dated an English professor, a distinguished gentleman, from a lovely university here in these United States. He was attracted to the profile I wrote. (A psychologist friend told me I could make a living writing profiles for business professionals, very successful women, but they couldn’t get a date. Psychologist friend was privy to many conversations concerning lovely gentlemen I’ve met. Indeed, I’ve hooked a friend or two up with men I’ve met, wonderful men, good men.)
I tell you all this as a way of saying ‘maybe’ this is what I’m meant to do. Y’all tell me it is, and you wouldn’t lead me astray.
We’ll see...
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