When It is Time to Bring on a Writing Coach

Barbara Cleary
4 min readJul 22, 2021

A know-it-all eats humble pie

For a very long time, most of my acquaintance sang the “Barbara is a great writer” praises. “Of course”, I thought, “writing is something I like to do, and apparently I am good at it.”

The list of my writing achievements fill my resume: just out of college I was hired to edit continuing legal education program materials and creating program brochures, which lasted three years; I had to abandon this choice career because of a little thing called “marriage” and moving out of state.

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Barbara Cleary

Catholic wife/mom/Nan to four grandchildren. Writing about my faith, and life in a chaotic multigenerational home while trying to see the humor in it all.