by writerpatkramer | Apr 29, 2025 | Business - Oriented
So many people never write the book that they have in mind. As a ghostwriter, book writer, memoir writer and news journalist, I frequently am contacted by people who say they want to write a book but “have not gotten around to it.” The reasons are usually the same:...
by writerpatkramer | Nov 11, 2024 | Feature Story
People used to take the time to write letters to one another Before I was a writer – and even as a young child – I wrote letters to my various aunts and uncles, grandmothers, my parents and my siblings. This was something I was taught was part of “good manners.” You...
by writerpatkramer | Sep 16, 2024 | Feature Story
This week, I started going through some boxes of old letters and cards dating back some 20, 30, even 40 years! I am a saver of documents. I have always been a writer starting back in my childhood days when I had pen pals in other states. I looked forward to getting...
by writerpatkramer | Jun 28, 2024 | Business - Oriented
It wasn’t until I got interested in my own ancestry that I began to really think about what life was like for my ancestors. My grandfather crossed the ocean at the age of 16, leaving the Ukraine for a better life in America in about 1910. He was alone on that...
by writerpatkramer | Dec 4, 2022 | Feature Story
The people across the street from me moved in about 10 years ago. At first, it was a few people, then a few more, and over the years, more and more people seemed to move into this 1200 square feet home as evidenced by the five or six cars that they parked all along...