"Blueberries and Nubians" by Bill Donohue (Reprise)

 – a self-wallowing sense of indecision

It began a small world realization that all our lives connect.

Bill Donohue is a Winston Salem writer who has chronicled many of his family’s medical speed bumps. Recognizing his own aging leaks, rusts, and mold, this story is the first capture of his newest frailty and the beginning of his journey with cancer.

Author’s Talk

Bill Donohue

My last publication and several before it have been very personal, both reflective and current. It’s obvious to me that writing, mostly spontaneous, has been my therapy for trauma and triumph.  From family and personal medical issues to scratching at political travesties.

Randell Jones may not be my therapist, but he is without a doubt my doorstep. By going to print I verbalize with more coherence. When I hear him read my stories it is another pathway to reality and response; to acceptance and often gratitude.

The combination of writing, reading, and hearing fuel a larger legacy writing project for my granddaughter in Norway. Capturing the background of family with photographs and the surrounding world of social and cultural change is much easier when I’ve first pondered and written in present tense. Hopefully she (and her emerging siblings) will at any age gain from these personal time capsules.

All of this therapy comes easy when you are simultaneously living in the twilight years, reliving stories of yesteryear and diving headlong into the present-day challenges of aging.—Bill Donohue

Bill and Jeremy Donohue at the Special Olympics Partner Golf event