Helen Cassidy Page

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Helen Cassidy Page: Biography

For anyone interested in badass little old ladies. Okay, I’m not as old as the Painted Ladies of San Francisco. But close. I used to live behind them, and now, when I slap on some powder and lipstick, I can call myself a painted lady. Some people call me a…

Biography

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Have You Bought A Knitting Pattern From Ukraine Today?

You don’t knit? That’s not the point. Many people are reserving bombed out Airbnb’s in Ukraine, not because they have a yen for vacationing amidst rubble with a side of air raid sirens. Scheduling a Ukrainian Airbnb you never intend to use is a way of putting cash into the…

Ukraine

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Published in The Partnered Pen

·Jul 18

How To Get Your Writing Unblocked.

You have to see the block before you can get around it. — I’m known for stuffing the adage “Write every day” so often I think writers run the other way when they see me coming. Yet it’s a practice that has allowed me, after years of stop and start writing and collecting drawers full of unfinished stories, to produce more books and…

Writing

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Published in The Partnered Pen

·Jul 18

Happy Birthday To My Father in the Cosmos

A look a legacy of one of the faceless immigrants. On this day 124 years ago, my father was born in a in small townland called Bulcaun, Ireland, a clump of farms outside of Charlestown, County Mayo, in the century before Irish Independence. He landed somewhere in the middle of…

Family

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Happy Birthday To My Father in the Cosmos

Published in The Narrative

·Jun 3

How to Keep Writing When Your Writing Gets Hard.

We all run into a wall now and then. Here are tips to climb over it. — Writing is easy when writing is easy. You’ve probably been there. You get an idea, make some notes, open up a Write A Story page, and boom! The piece writes itself. I could make a living at this, you say to yourself. And for a while, you do. Until life…

Writing

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Published in The Bad Influence

·May 19

5 Reasons For Choosing Sickness Over Wellness

This one is easy, but in case you need a prompt, here goes. — I just came off a 5-day bout of a mild, non-Covid, flu-ish adjacent, bug-type illness, and while I don’t have all my strength back yet, thank goodness for you all, I’m well enough to rant. I don’t have a name for my malaise because I didn’t seek the assistance of…

Health

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5 Reasons For Choosing Sickness Over Wellness

Published in The Partnered Pen

·May 18

Let’s Help Jason

We all know someone in need; here’s one of our own. — Jason Weiland is one of us, a long-time Medium writer who’s come upon hard times. Like me, you may be following other Medium friends, Shannon Ashley, Caroline de Braganza , for example, who’ve written about life catching them up short. They all need our support. Maybe you’ve contributed to their…

Advice

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Published in Everything Shortform

·May 17

Sixty-four years ago, Wendy Wood nudged ( her word) her way into my life, thank goodness.

Sixty-four years ago, Wendy Wood nudged ( her word) her way into my life, thank goodness. A New York transplant, I’d spent the first semester at the College of San Mateo, turning myself inside out trying to make new friends. Upon returning from winter break, there was this blonde in…

This Happened To Me

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Sixty-four years ago, Wendy Wood nudged ( her word) her way into my life, thank goodness.

A New York transplant, I’d spent the first semester at the College of San Mateo, turning myself inside out trying to make new friends.

Upon returning from winter break, there was this blonde in…

Published in The Partnered Pen

·May 17

Surviving The Pandemic, One Handcrafted-Chocolate At A Time

This plucky senior can teach us all a lesson in perseverance and quality control, the secrets to a successful small business. — To this little girl from the Bronx, whose of luxe was a chain-link fence around a patch of stubby grass in the front yard, nothing said paradise like Burlingame, California, where orange trees grew in the back patio. Patio? Who knew from patios where I came from, but they were…

Aging

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Surviving The Pandemic, One Handcrafted-Chocolate At A Time

Published in The Partnered Pen

·May 10

I’m A Top Writer In Advice

Does that mean I’m the wisest writer on the platform? — Congrats, the e-mail began, and I was already suspicious. Isn’t that the way the scammers get you? But this time, instead of being invited to contribute to the coffers of a Nigerian prince, Medium informed me they had anointed me a Top Writer in Advice. Okay, you can stop bowing…

Advice

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