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Discover Patricia Grayhall's author blog for insights into her writing journey, updates on upcoming novels, and reflections on her transition from a 40-year medical career to crafting LGBTQ+ fiction.

Read about Patricia Grayhall's latest book releases, including Making the Rounds and Golden Years and Silver Linings, and find behind-the-scenes stories from her life in the Pacific Northwest. Engage with Patricia's thoughts on writing, love, and life through her compelling blog posts.

Costume Changes

Throughout my adult life, I have been may different people: daughter, sister, college student, medical student, doctor, friend, lover,...

An Unlikely Couple

People enter our lives, perhaps only for a moment, a few months, or a few years. One may need more than the other, but often there is...

Why I Write Using a Pen Name

The desire to review and make sense of my life through memoir writing arose when my partner and I were downsizing. Coming across my old...

Why Should Young People Read about What It Was Like for Women and Gays the 1970s?

Why should you read a memoir about what it was like to be a young lesbian woman in the late sixties and seventies? Everyone knows it was...

Reflections on Last Night at the Telegraph Club

This extensively researched historical novel by Malinda Lo was particularly interesting to me because my first long term love, C., was a...

Why I Write Memoir

I noticed the cardboard box in the back of my closet that hadn't been opened for decades. My spouse, and I were going to be downsizing...

Five Things I've Learned Writing Memoir

It Takes Courage Memoir requires you to write about life events that have affected you deeply and that may be associated with shame. A...

My Aunt Turns 103 Years Old

On January 6th my aunt turned 103. Several decades ago, she took me aside at a family reunion to say, "Your uncle and I have known you...

Do Women Make Better Doctors?

Female physicians have been linked to improved patient outcomes in numerous studies, according to a systematic review published in the...

Lesbian Queer or Gender Fluid?

Language is always changing and so it is with women who love women. For my generation, women who preferred loving women emotionally and...

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Blog

Discover Patricia Grayhall's author blog for insights into her writing journey, updates on upcoming novels, and reflections on her transition from a 40-year medical career to crafting LGBTQ+ fiction.

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