Touring with my Blog...virtually, that is!
By Jody Worsham
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I was
invited by Libby Hall www.subourbonmom.wordpress.com
to join “My Writing Process Blog Tour and I am so glad. I think because it affirms that at least one
person reads my blog besides my mother.
THE BIG QUESTIONS!
As part of
the invitation, I have to answer these four questions.
# 1 What am I working on? Right now, I’m trying to figure out this blog
tour rolling thing. I have been working
on laundry for the past three days and at some point I have to grocery shop and
remember to pick up my children. Writing
wise, Wanda Argersinger and I have a book coming out as soon as we settle on
the cover. We have the title “Kin We Are
Not Related To” but the cover is the hold up.
# 2 How does my work differ from others of its
genre? Well, I am the Medicare Mom. My husband and I adopted six children, then,
in our early sixties, we adopted our one day old grandson and our three year
old granddaughter. It’s senior parenting
with us being the seniors and the parents.
There are two million plus grandparents raising their
grandchildren. Raising children has many
universal topics and challenges. Rearing
children as seniors has its own humorous twists and turns.
# 3 Why do I write what I do? Instead of keeping a baby book on the
children, I started writing essays about them and what it is like to be a parented by a senior. Writing humor for me was cheaper than therapy,
didn’t leave a hangover, and didn’t require a prescription. It will be their inheritance . They
can submit them to “Ripley’s Believe It
or Not”, “As the World Flops”, or give them to their therapists.
# 4 How does my writing process work? I wake up.
Stuff happens. I write it
down. If I am stuck for a topic, I just
try to cook something. That is always
good for a couple of blogs including but not limited to: a trip to the ER, smoke alarm tests, and/or supper at McDonald’s. The
book “Kin We Are Not Related To” evolved through a series of e-mails between
Wanda Argersinger and myself. With us
feeding off each other’s humor style, and topics, MayBelle, Mable, Aunt Clovis
and a whole family of relatives evolved and took on a life of their own. The book will be out soon. If you recognize any of your relatives in the book, then you are probably kin to MayBelle and Mable.
JOINING THE
BLOG TOUR
Molly Dugger
Brennan is joining the tour. Molly is a
Southern humorist who lives in the Shenandoah Valley with her patient husband
and four monster dogs. She is devoted to
the Holy Trinity of Southern life: a
porch, a pie, and a pack of dogs. Read
her essays at www.mollyduggerbrennan.com
I am supposed to have two more but most of my humor blogger friends are headed for the Erma Bombeck Writer's Conference. It's that or else I am alone out there in cyber space somewhere.Anyway, next week "The Dueling Phone Carriers" or "Hold Please...and I Still Am"
2 comments:
I am NOT your mother & I wouldn't miss your post!!
Your blog is one of the funniest out there and many of us can relate to so much you say - even if we are no longer parenting. We have our memories, well, some of them anyway.
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