Writing Is Designing, by Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle, caught my eye several months ago. The pandemic was growing by the day; I...

Outside my window, just beyond the top of my laptop, there is a tree. In deeper spring, it blooms and blooms with small fluttering pink...

Another bite sized fiction piece Why do we place all our trust in mere metal and cloth belts? I have asked my boyfriend this question...

I AM A SUMMER PERSON. I have to say it in all caps because it is not cool. Cool people love fall (they're cool, get it? A punny joke only...

This was one of the best speeches I've heard in a long, long time. You heard that story structure built in - story of me, story of us,...

Updated 1/10/2018 Whose stories get told depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is who decides to speak up and tell their...

"…we have people unable to touch other people, unable to love other people. This is a song about the inability to communicate."~Paul...

Every year I feel like a wanna-be Catholic because I'm annoyed at the lack of focus in the Protestant tradition on what the story is...

So, how about that speech. I heard a Republican caller on CSPAN say that she loved it! He said all the great things! I saw a lot of...

I haven't posted in awhile, or posted regularly. There are lots of reasons for it, but there's one that stands out: Fear. (Well, fear and...

I am, I am. I wish I could write something to appreciate how much her writing makes me feel, how it's both so magical and so earthly. How...

The Grand Canyon says it better than I can. But here's what I mean: I have so much love for all of you who have worked so hard for so...

I am reading Patti Smith's M Train, and it is Patti Smith just the way I love her, flexing her literary chops, her prose so fine and...

I'll always remember: This is the golden latte I was sipping and gripping when someone asked if I was a writer. I had a notebook and a...

Poems, like most great art, are the art of telling the truth of life just as we live it. I learned this in the work of Joy Harjo, Mary...

The work is to find that summer every day, many times a day. When I saw Beth Kanter's call for blogposts for a blog carnival about...

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