The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

People used to say if she’d have been a man, she’d have been the judge. She was brilliant.”

Women are always discriminated against!

We are born and grow through childhood in spring. We live those glorious, lively, interesting years of our twenties, thirties, forties in summer. We settle into ourselves in autumn,

Life in seasons

that cool but not yet cold time, rich and aromatic. And in winter we age (brutally) and die.

years. I had one of those stopovers when the children were young, just before Gilbert died, and Daan and I were happy, even though I didn’t know it was happiness at the time because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self-doubt.

good punch line is a good punch line regardless if delivered by a man or a woman. You sound like an old fool with comments like that one.

Love it!

I believe one ought to be precious with communication. Remember: words, especially those written, are immortal.

that hurting my characters takes courage. That was interesting.

“What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace,”