In Praise of "The Gotta."
The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even though the...
Check Out My Website...Oh, Never Mind. I'm On Facebook
I'll never forget when I purchased my domain name and built my first website: www.Judy5cents.com. It was back in 2003, when my first book...
This Morning I Published a Book in My Pajamas
.. How it got in my pajamas, I don’t know. Paraphrasing the immortal Groucho Marx today, as I announce with great fanfare (anyone hear...
One of These Days, I'm Going to Get Organized
Whenever I imagined being a writer, I saw myself holed up in my special author’s study, sitting at my beloved old desk (I spent the...
Choosing None of the Above
Recently, I got caught up in a heated discussion over Robert Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. In retrospect, I should have stayed...
"A Horse Walks into a Bar..."
A few days ago I was in New York City and overheard someone in the Times Square Subway station asking for directions to Carnegie Hall. I...