Happy Birthday – MARY LAMPHERE AUTHOR

June 15, 2020

Change is good, right?

I came across this photo the other day and decided it was particularly timely. Taken on my sixth birthday in October, 1972, it’s my friends and I posing for a photo in our party best. I love this picture. Today, this picture makes me sad.

Mixed Messages

(This one cracks me up, wins “best use of mime” award!) Actions speak louder than Words is a familiar adage, we come across it all the time—especially writers, right? Show, don’t tell! But I falter frequently. No, I’m not going to tattle on myself and my adverb abuse (they don’t call me Maryly for nothin’!), I’d rather

Bleeping Beep

I woke to that all too familiar low-battery beep. You know the one, high-pitched and piercing, the scree of beeps that’s like a fat-fingered flick directly to your eardrum. The sound seems to bounce off the walls and echo through the hallways making it nearly impossible to locate. I wander from room to room, awaiting