I’m reading a lyrical, insightful book right now by the educator and poet Parker J. Palmer titled LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK: Listening to the Voice of Vocation. Yeah, I know, that sounds heavy but it is actually a wonderful read during this Season of Gratitude when we take stock of the year we’ve lived. What…
I am a fan of Angela Hunt’s books on writing. They are practical, clever ways of understanding how fiction works and how to speed up writing. Angela and I met once through our mutual friend Robin Lee Hatcher. It was one of those chance meetings in the hotel hallways at a writers’ convention. After Angela…
When my writer friends I went to Scotland, we spent the week in a cottage that was charming, and haunted. Not all of us heard or saw the ghost. Two did. We thought they were whacky. After all, the group as a whole makes up stuff for a living. Why wouldn’t two of us be guilty…