Jan Bono’s Blog

My football season begins and ends with the Seattle Seahawks. Once Seattle is "done," then so am I. (The only exception is an occasional peek at the Green Bay Packers, if they're still in the playoffs.) That makes me a fickle fan, I guess. Born in Seattle, I've always...

Starting Tuesday afternoon, January 12th, and running for six weeks, I was supposed to be teaching a writing class for "seniors" (over 50) at the Columbia Education Center (Gray's Harbor College's Ilwaco campus). The official title was: "Write what you know: Personal...

Morph, short for "metamorphosis" —an emergence, or change. I started writing this blog on January 15, 2009. I wanted to create "an online presence" for agents, publishers, and readers who might like to find out how I think before "signing on" to buying my future...

A Dream List looks suspiciously like a delineation of goals or "New Year's Resolutions." The difference is that when you spin it this way, you're a lot more likely to smile instead of grimace as you write them. The focus is not on what you need to "fix," and all the...

As far as I know, none of my "family of origin" managed to get together for Christmas dinner this year. As you may have surmised, my blood relatives are not all that close. Although I was invited to my brother's, given my current mental (and medical) state, it was...

It was a Sunday morning in late November. I was out of town for another Holiday Bazaar, and I was hungry. So I'm sitting at a diner, waiting for my breakfast, browsing through The Seattle Times—something I rarely, if ever, have the time or opportunity to do—when an...