Once
I finally committed to writing A Rose for
Sergei, the actual sitting down at the computer and getting started on the
book was difficult. Not that I wasn’t
used to working and composing letters daily, I started working full time at age
17 for the Federal Government (in 1969). It was second nature to me – the jump from
manual typewriter to electric typewriter to computers came easily. I knew where to start the first chapter of my
book thanks to my co-worker Suzanna. However,
it had already been forty years, a long time to keep a story in my heart. So I thought, what did one more day, week, or
month make? I was postponing revisiting
the heartbreak.
Now I look back with thanks. It was my lovely daughter, Laura, who asked me almost daily, “Mom, have you started writing your book yet?” Laura is an editor, wife and mother, smart and talented. She knows about writing. She also knew I had been procrastinating. “What are you waiting for?” she kept asking me. She was pretty relentless, though in the most loving, encouraging way that only a daughter can be. I was running out of excuses. “The writing will get easier once you get started,” she added. And she was right, the writing did get easier.
Laura also persuaded me to start my blog – A Rose for Sergei. Afterwards she wondered what sort of strange outfit I was wearing in the photographs with Sergei Kourdakov. She thought I was wearing a child’s romper! I am actually wearing Hot Pants in the photographs. They were very fashionable in Washington DC at the time. I only have a few photographs of Sergei; I didn’t know we wouldn’t have more time together.
Now I look back with thanks. It was my lovely daughter, Laura, who asked me almost daily, “Mom, have you started writing your book yet?” Laura is an editor, wife and mother, smart and talented. She knows about writing. She also knew I had been procrastinating. “What are you waiting for?” she kept asking me. She was pretty relentless, though in the most loving, encouraging way that only a daughter can be. I was running out of excuses. “The writing will get easier once you get started,” she added. And she was right, the writing did get easier.
Laura also persuaded me to start my blog – A Rose for Sergei. Afterwards she wondered what sort of strange outfit I was wearing in the photographs with Sergei Kourdakov. She thought I was wearing a child’s romper! I am actually wearing Hot Pants in the photographs. They were very fashionable in Washington DC at the time. I only have a few photographs of Sergei; I didn’t know we wouldn’t have more time together.
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