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Happy Trails, Dearest Don Mittelstaedt 24 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
I thought February 28, 2011 was just another day. But my inbox held a special surprise — an email from World War II veteran Donald Mittelstaedt. He’d found a site I’d created for my father’s WWII ph...
Happy Birthday, P.D. James! 3 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
Nothing that ever happens to a novelist is ever wasted. ~P.D. James {tweet this} Years ago, on a whim, I picked up P.D. James’ Original Sin on a remainder table. Five hundred pages later, I closed i...
Gifts of the Imagination from Three Late Bloomers 20 Jul 2013 | 08:00 am
Do your kids adore Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty? Are you a fan of Twilight or True Blood? Did you catch Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on the big screen? Or is Doctor Who more your style? We can trace ...
Do You Plan to Write a Memoir? 12 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
News articles continually highlight that many baby boomers want to write a memoir when they “retire.” So we should. The decades we’ve lived through have captivated recent imagination — well beyond “T...
It’s Never Too Late To Find Your Vital Vocation 29 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
This week’s guest post is by Brian Cormack Carr of Birmingham, England, who decided he would write the book he always knew was in him by his 40th birthday…and told everyone. I’ve loved telling storie...
Does Uniquity Exist? 13 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to. ~Jean-Luc Godard Embarking on this creative journey in 50s used to terrify me. To make up for my lack of youth, I felt I had to ooze ...
Five Reasons I Fell in Love With Fiction Writing at 57 8 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
A guest post by author Kassandra Lamb who, like actor Carl Gordon, experienced a divine calling that led to her late-blooming passion. (Note: Later Bloomer Unlimited is an equal-opportunity supporter ...
Into The Wild Blue Yonder: A Late Bloomer’s Tale 1 Jun 2013 | 10:30 am
I find it delightful when a person’s surname points toward their true passion. There’s Sharon Penman, bestselling writer of historical fiction. And Jeremy Wade, Animal Planet’s extreme freshwater angl...
Come MOOC With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be 26 May 2013 | 05:15 am
Did you know you could create a unique college degree online for free? It won’t be credentialed, but if you’re a Renaissance Soul seeking knowledge for its own sake, it won’t matter. Almost every top ...
Madeleine L’Engle: Tenacity and The Tesseract 4 May 2013 | 10:00 am
You have to write the book that wants to be written…if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Last year, Amazon US announced that The Hunger Games had outsold Ha...
