What I’ve Been Working On…
About six months after the release of my memoir, in early 2022, I decided to finish a fiction novel I had started a while back. It’s a story about a twenty-two-year-old former ballerina who’s life has been unbalanced since her father died. The story takes place in Detroit, a place that is very special to…
The Ski Lesson
With ski season upon us, I thought it would be fun to share an essay about my first-ever ski lesson. I have shared this essay before, but it has since been edited, so I wanted to share it again. Enjoy! We were at a small ski resort in upstate New York with friends. They invited…
Geauga Lake: An Essay from When Love Sticks Around
With summer vacation already half over for my kids, I thought I’d share a story of one of my most memorable childhood vacations. It wasn’t necessarily memorable in either a good or a bad way, but in both, I guess. This personal essay was one of my favorites to write, because I loved getting inside…
Keep Pedaling, an Essay
This is an essay from my memoir, When Love Sticks Around. One of the last essays I wrote, actually. My project manager said we needed an additional story to show the relationship between Jim and I. So, in order to shake my memories back up to the surface, I looked through old photos. Although I…
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About Me
Born and raised in Ohio, I got my start writing rock concert reviews for Toledo-based music magazine, The Glass Eye. Today, my work has appeared in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, online at Huffington Post, Dead Housekeeping and The Mindful Word, and in several anthologies including the Virginia Writers Centennial Anthology, Nevertheless We Persisted, and Beach Reads: Lost and Found. I have also received awards for two creative nonfiction essays at BlogHer. My debut memoir, When Love Sticks Around, is out now.
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Danielle Dayney 
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