Starting a blog has been on my mind for sometime. If I were being really optimistic, I’d tell you this was a New Year’s resolution that I can cross off my list, but I never formally declared it as one.

In honesty I didn’t go back to the gym (like I should) or give up sugar (like I REALLY should). What I did do was tell myself I was going to finish my manuscript, work harder at querying agents, and finally buy that digital SLR camera and take a photography class at the community college.

The last few weeks of December placed me in a position that I hadn’t anticipated, and I have my own big mouth to thank for it.

I’m an honorary member of the Highland Park/Highwood Rotary Club. I produce their bulletin (some very minor writing) and manage their website. But in the time that I have been doing that and getting to know someone the members, I noticed that a few of the older members passed away in 2016. When people told me of those lives now silenced, I thought what stories these people had, and no one else will know of them.

That contemplation crawled under my skin and festered like a parasite until I knew what had to be done. I had to write the stories of the remaining members.

So begins The Biography Project…