Welcome to my website and blog.

I am a writer.  I write stories of  personal experiences over a long life. My writing life began in my sunset years.

I write furiously now to make up for lost time. I belong to writing groups, write a newsletter for writers and write a column on profiles of published authors.

Curiosity prompts my thirst for the craft of writing. Curiosity inspires new ideas, it prompts my reading choices.

A variety of personal essays on my website have a recurring theme of survival.

•  I  survived a tornado when only seven.  Read Story
•  I left a convent at age thirty-seven and survived starting over. Read Story
•  I am a breast cancer survivor since age sixty-two. Read Story

Satisfy your curiosity by reading  these personal stories found on my WRITINGS page.

Visit my BLOG  for writing tips and progress toward publishing my manuscript.

My manuscript FROM MONASTERY TO MATRIMONY is ready to be published. It is the story of twenty years of my life  in a convent.  In my BLOG I will share the  journey of  bringing the memoir to completion and preparing the required book proposal.

Read my  bio on the ABOUT MARY ANN page.

Join me in developing a curiosity for the writing craft.  Share your ideas, comment on my writings.  Contact me at maweakley@bellsouth.net

Be Curious Always. For knowledge will not acquire you;
you must acquire it. –Sudie Back