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 Beverly A Kipp |
| Good Mourning Linda, and thanks for sharing your joyful writing. I have never perused a webpage before and what a delight this was. I read Griefcase faithfully now and was pleased to finally get into the little red mailbox. I published your blog in our church newsletter for other widows to reap the rewards of your words of kindness. Take care, keep smiling, and when you can't, just remember the widows motto: never be more than an arms length from a box of Kleenex! Love, beverly kipp |
| Karen Doty |
| Linda, I'm hopeful that you will read this. At first I thought I would send you a personal e-mail, but when I found the log in and guestbook, I thought "what the heck." I read your website and mourning joy EVERY DAY! Your ability to connect with the reader is amazing - but then again you are a true writer. There is no doubt that you receive "heavenly guidance." Keep spreading the JOY! Aren't we lucky to have met? Keep up the good work and we'll remain in touch :o) Karen |
| Michelle |
| Hi Linda. Just stopped by to check out your site. You met my fiance on 84th Street during the Law & Order taping. Thank you for chatting with him and giving him sites to check for his job search. It is really appreciated. Best of luck with all your writing. Michelle |
| George L Griffin III |
| This site looks great mom. I could take a few notes from you about web creativity and design. |
| Rosamond Lincoln |
| Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful message. |
| Meredith Meisel |
| What a wonderful website! I love the Little Red Mailbox and Izzy's page and all of it. Thank you for sharing it with me....... |
| Liz Hernandez |
| Howdy From Texas Linda! Saw your post on our "Flames" website and had to come visit yours. Glad to hear you enjoyed the band while visiting Austin! I visit New York on occasion (and I've also taken a picture with the Times Square "Naked Cowboy"! Oye Vey!) Best of luck on your literary works....and we all look forward to seeing your characters splashed on the side of Barnes and Nobles! Cordially- Liz Hernandez (Los Flames Photographer/Webmaster/ www.losflames.com) Austin, Texas |
| Janet Elaine Smith |
| I don't know where you've been hiding this, Linda, but I loved wandering through the pages with you. I am so proud of you and so glad we have become friends. Have you told your other friends yet that you have a poem that will be published in The Writer's Journal in a couple of months? That's just the start of good things coming your way. |
| Wendy Haber |
| What a nice poem! Outstanding! I came to your website because you are one of the 2005 Nano Team Participants. You're in New York. I'm in Oregon. I also write for children and I'm working on the Nano novel as wendywrites. Wishing you great success in all you do. Wendy |
| Charles |
| Just got here, Linda, but it's even more delicious than I expected it to be. More later after a more through perusal. Charles PS: Patsy says "woof." She never yells. |
| Malcolm Petrook |
| Quite lovely. I am confident that you'll make it ... and sooner than you expect. Your sentiments are thrilling. |
| Aisling Walsh |
| hi Linda, just found your site on the Naked Cowboy's one! good luck with your writing! i'll be looking out for you books in every bookstore in Ireland! |
| Martha Mc Guire |
| Hi Linda, Naked Cowboy's web site is where I found you and I am glad I did. I love your home page. You seem to be a lovely lady and I wish you success with your dream. It will happen. I tried a writing class once and upon being asked to read what I had written I began to sweat and shake profusely! Although when I finished reading I was happy to hear that I had "potential". They apparently liked one line in particular; " I was born of two people who were drawn together by the spirit of alcohol, and who would ultimately be drawn apart by that same spirit." Now if I could only finish the rest of the book :) Blessings to you. Joyfully, Martha |
| Bob and Diane Quaranta |
| Dear Linda, Diane and I have been thinking of you and wanted to wish you well in the New Year. |
| Sharon Boodram |
| Hi Linda, I finally found the time to read your home page and I must say it was one of the best. I wish you would read my daughter her bedtime story. Your writing is full of energy, just like you. Take care and all the best in whatever you do and wherever you go. God Bless. |
| Peter Winterble |
| Well, there are homepages and there are homepages, and yours is very much one of the best I've seen- especially for a writer! I envy your energy and dedication to your craft, and hope that when you're rich and famous (which ought to occur pretty soon, one hopes) you'll remember the good old days when life was simpler. Maybe. All the best, and keep at it. Never forget what one of my favorite teachers once said: Write good and speak well English! |
| Katie Hsu |
| Hi! Linda, I am your new reader. I love your website. I can see where is your passion for writing coming from - Love! Looking forward to read more of your work. |
| Cynthia Klimback |
| Hi Linda, I'll miss you while I'm off the loop. I miss you anyway! Maybe we can meet up again sometime at Grand Central. Love, Cyndi |
| Bill Mayer |
| I am so happy to visit your website. As an "old" friend I look forward to reading your novel. Best wishes. |
| Kathy Umbarger |
| Hi Linda, What fun to wander through your site and then find this page! I love your site. And I enjoyed getting to know you at Chautauqu-may we ALL publish this year!! |
| Boring, Mel |
| A BEAUTIFUL site, Linda, with many treats, such as your dedication to Ed, your writing, Izz-and fun seeing it all! |
| Barbara Ehrentreu |
| Hi Linda,D Do you remember me? We spent a couple of hours together just talking about writing and reading each other's work. I thought you were very quiet lately, but I didn't know about your losing your husband. So sorry to hear that. The website is lively and fun. It's wonderful that you are able to describe all of your writing experiences so we experience them too. I'm sure that soon your book will be published and your dream will come true. Are you going to the book festival in Sleepy Hollow? I'll be there. Send me an email if you're coming. Barbara in Westchester |
| Hassan Saeed |
| Greetings from Maldives. You got a great website. This website protrays your creative and enthusiastic mind. It radiates love of life. I wish you all the best. Hope to see you published. Hassan |
| Wanda |
| Hi, Just wanted to let you know your website is fantastic! I visited your dedication page and find it quite a tribute to your husband. Glad you are still writing. Take care and the best to you. Wanda in Ohio |
| Joyce Johnson |
| Hi Linda, Remember me? We met in Albany, NY at the first page first seminar. We were also, for a short time, in the Blue Crayon crit group. The site looks great! Joyce |
| Warren Zinn |
| Hi Linda, just a note to let you know I stopped by. I like the web site a lot. I only hope I do this good a job on mine. I'm looking for your first novel and know it will happen. You're a good wordsmith with a very creative mind. |
| hadiyah |
| ohhhhhhhhhh linda. it's 2:00 in the morning. my grandaughters are asleep in my bed and i am out here and saw your website and said let me try so i did and there you are and sending you good thoughts and love. hadiyah here in seattle in the rainnnn againnn and say hello to grand central for me!!!!!!!!! |
| Cathy Lickteig |
| Dear Linda: So good to hear that you are emerging from the depths of sadness that you expressed so eloquently during Ed's illness. It was hard reading your love story without crying and I can't begin to imagine what it must of have been like for you and Ed. I hope you are beginning to feel better. Congratulations on your recent publishing successes. I am off the loop until the middle of September. My husband and I are in the process of moving to Camden, Maine. We bought a sweet little home just a five minute walk to the shores of Penboscopt Bay and a ten minute walk into the gorgeous little town of Camden. Our plan is to spend most of the year in Maine, returning to Maryland during the winter months. It has been very hard to downsize but we've completed it and that feels good. The manuscript I'm working on about my friend with Parkinson's is progressing, although all the notes and tapes and early drafts of chapters are in a box and will soon be loaded in a moving van. I don't imagine that I will get back to it until mid- September. I will be making more trips to Sleepy Hollow to talk with my friend and her new friends with Parkinson's in the coming months and would love to try to meet you, if you'd like. No pressure, just a thought. Be well, Cathy from Columbi- for two more weeks. |
| Linda Vermaercke |
| Linda, it's so good you are back. Sending supportive thoughts to you every day. I would have liked it to meet your Ed. Still hoping we will be able to write together one day at Central Station in New York. Love, Linda V. |
| Tania Casselle |
| Linda, thank you for writing from the heart, and for sharing this dedication/pic of Ed. I never met him, but he is clearly a beautiful man, and your mutual love is as obvious as the Atlantic ocean. |
| Barbara Levinson |
| Hi Linda I'm so glad that you decided to start writing again. Lots of warm hugs and goodness to you. I have this quote taped to the top of my computer monitor. It comforts me. "Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference." Virginia Satir. |
| Cate Zimmerman |
| Allo! Allo??? Hey there Linda! What a darling little space on the web. So nice to be able to visit here, rest ahwile, check in on Izzy and feel like I'm sitting next to you, each of us scribbling in our notebooks, tears flowing, chortles erupting, every now and then stopping to take a sip of coffee or tea, and breathe while one of us reads to the other. "See" you soon I hope. Lots of love, Cate in Oregon |
| Lorna Hernandez |
| Hi Linda, I was so happy to hear that you were back writing. We miss you on the loop. Love, Lorna |
| Marilyn Probe |
| Hi Linda, Funny I was just thinking about you today. I was missing your writes on the eloop and wondering how you are. So glad to hear from you and to know you are writing again and getting published as well. Keep up the good work, one second at a time. Love Marilyn |
| Dave Richardson |
| Hi Linda, What a great site! I thought I'd stop by, see the place, and say hello. Keep writing, Dave r |
| Kadee Della Donna |
| Hello Linda, I was just reading through the internet when I came upon your website. I smiled as I read, knowing that we may not be related at all. I don't have the gift of writing like you do! Perhaps I am related to your husband Ed. :o) Anyway, I know you are busy, but if we are related, could you send me a message? My Father's name is Anthony P. Della Donna, and his Father's name was Samuel P. Della Donna of Bridgeport CT. Samuel came to this country from Naples Italy in 1908?? and supposedly changed his and his brothers names from Delle Donne to Della Donna. I'm not sure if that's lore or not, but that's the way the story goes. You LOOK very much like we could be related... Hoping to hear from you, Kadee (really Katherine Elizabeth Bridgette - Mom got the Saints to bunch up for me) Della Donna Long Beach, CA |
| Donna J. Shepherd |
| Congratulations on being published in "The Writers Room Magazine." Great website, too! Donna |
| Suzanne Lieurance |
| Linda, Wow! Your website looks great! I'm so impressed. And, I love the story about the Little Red Mailbox. I always wondered about that! |
