Live to Write – Write to Live was the blog for The New Hampshire Writers Network. For seven years, I wrote bi-weekly essays about the business and craft of writing in my Wordshop—an 8×10 building about 100 feet from my back door.

For 16 years, I managed my husband’s medical practice. The “Mom and Pop Doc Shop,” I called it, because it was like an old-time general store where the proprietors lived in back and knew who would come in when, what they would buy, and when they would pay, if ever. Our office was never so quaint as to be attached to our house, but that never stopped patients from dropping by after hours for an informal consult. And, like a general store, it took both of us to run the practice.