Warrior Mother | Sheila Collins

Las Vegas Happened To Me Twice

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2016 | book promotion, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling

Last week Rich and I got up at 4 am to make a direct flight to Las Vegas, one of my least favorite destinations. If you don’t count stops at the Vegas airport on the way to somewhere else, I’d only been to Vegas twice before. In 1992, my in-laws took the family there...

Gifts That Endure

by Sheila Collins | Aug 3, 2014 | Health, Personal Stories, Play

We were house guests at some friends’ lake house last weekend. Having never been there we decided that instead of bringing a house gift with us, we’d wait to see what they might need. After we got home, it was great fun selecting a couple of practical kitchen items to...

Commencement

by Sheila Collins | May 22, 2014 | Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Uncategorized

It’s a tremendous accomplishment, though I’ve often wondered, whose accomplishment is it? If it takes a village to raise a child, when the eldest child of my eldest child was scheduled to graduate from college a couple of weeks ago, our family determined it would take...

An Author Visits A Book Club

by Sheila Collins | May 3, 2014 | book promotion, Gatherings, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I left the church where my book club had been discussing Pema Chadron’s When Things Fall Apart and drove north to a book club where I was to be the special guest. I was the author who would be meeting in person with ten women who had read my book, Warrior Mother:...

A Different Kind of Gypsy

by Sheila Collins | Jan 22, 2014 | Improvisation, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In the musical comedy theater the dancers are called “gypsies.” I suppose it’s because the nature of their employment involves changing jobs and moving around the country often. The first year I was in New York, I lived in 11 different places around the city,...