Yesterday I wondered if I’m prone to making rash decisions. I never thought so, but there was that time I bought the Stainless Steel Cookware I couldn’t afford from the door-to-door salesman when I was in my twenties and had one husband, one baby, one toddler, and one kindergartner in the house we rented for … More Falling Out of the Fishbowl
…if the power that comes from bearing up and bearing down were translated into a coinage, with a womb on one side and an umbilical cord on the other—my God, that coin would be more valuable than any gold on the earth. … More Those Men
I go to a fair number of conferences and workshops. I go because my degree is an MBA, not an MFA. I also go because the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. Here are a few of my favorites: Iowa Summer Writing Festival: This writer’s conference is hosted by the University of … More Why Do I Go to Writer’s Conferences?
In 2014 I decided it was time to start publishing, or at least trying to publish. Because until now, I wasn’t published but I could always say, if asked, “I’m not published yet, but my writing is secret. I haven’t submitted anything yet for publication.” If I had long hair, at that point I would … More Wildly Successful
When I first started writing many years ago, I didn’t foresee just what a mess my computer writing files would become. Some of my short story versions were filed together and others were tossed haphazardly in the general folder. I had folders labeled Writing, Writing 2007, Writing_1, etc. Conference materials, writing exercises, and blog posts … More Organizing Writing Files
I belong to an awesome writer’s group. The God moment that started it is almost as out there as The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven* but mine actually happened, and I have a witness. It started at a Cincinnati Vineyard Church Missions Team Prayer Training event on a Saturday morning the summer of 2009. … More A Surprising Way to Begin
I got a new scanner and I expect it to change my life. Which is a lot to expect from a piece of electronic equipment, but isn’t that why we buy electronic equipment in the first place? My scanner is the iX500, which sounds space-age, and sort of is. It scans 25 pages per minute, … More Scanner
I wrote this homage a few years ago, prompted by a picture I took that’s mentioned in the story. Sadly, I can’t locate the picture now. I originally published this in 2011 in another blog called FromBetween.
