Enfin (Finally)

I took a hiatus from this blog when I decided to return to school for a second Master’s Degree. I commuted several times a week to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and earned a Master’s in Writing with a poetry concentration. It was a profound experience. I met other writers, all entrenched in other careers in order to pay the bills, but they all had a yearning to tell a story, write a sonnet, or finish a memoir that had been pushing them all along toward the craft of writing. My thesis group has stayed in touch, we cheer each new publication and encourage one and other to continue writing. Now that the diploma hangs on my wall, I have a responsibility to return to writing, despite that other career, and to find time to put words into verse,

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