Struggling With The Pain By Writing Via The Tremendous Great Sadness
Three years ago, I started composing a fiction for tweens, Belle in the Slouch Hat. It’s a story about a young girl who wants revenge after her brother was killed during the Civil War. I purposely started the story plot for my grandchildren; and I needed something to fill an emptiness in me as a consequence of the losing my beloved mother, and another special woman during my life. They died within two months of one another.
