Randy Bartz asked Darcy Leech:

What have you written?

Darcy Leech o In the process of finding a publisher for From My Mother, I had a chapter excerpt, “Beyond Willpower”, nationally published in the Quest Magazine: http://quest.mda.org/article/beyond-w.... The comments and new Facebook friends I met helped me know that my honest self-revelation was affecting real people in meaningful ways. After that article was published, I knew I had a worthwhile reason to finish. I also published a Kansas Poem of the Week: https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/... I wrote that poem in college, and my professor wanted me to seek publication. I refused because the writing is a moving picture of how as a surviving sibling of a terminally ill brother, I lost a bit of my parents too. I didn’t want my mother to read the poem because the piece is an extended metaphor comparing my mother to my lilac “who outlived her Son and weeps”. It conveys my family’s battle with depression and moving forward after losing my 13 year old brother with special needs. I also have a blog where I write about the publishing process, reflections on my family and philosophical musings about genetic diseases and cures.

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