The Beginning of the New You
©2009 by Toni Piccinini Is there a better launching off point for positive change than New Year’s Day? Nope, not much beats January 1st as the beginning of the new…
Poet's Corner
© 2008 Rebecca Foust YOUR BABIES You care for them soap their backs pick nits from each strand of hair; nourish and starve them for their own good; discipline them…
What's Up Down Under?
© 2008 by Laurie McAndish King Do you know that in Australia the globes are just like American ones, with Australia on the bottom? It boggles my imagination to think…
That Certain Something
Normal 0 © 2008 Wendy Nelson Tokunaga I was addicted. Unlike the mid-1990s, when I first started on the long road of attempting to get a novel published, in the…
Activated!
© 2008 Kate Amatruda Tuesday, February 20 1128 Hours Scrunched into a slippery orange chair at the DMV, I’m waiting with my 15-1/2 year old son to see what he…
How Chasing Mr. Wrong Led to Mr. Write
© 2008 by Wendy Merrill The reason I attended the Maui Writers Conference that year was not because I’d dutifully saved my money, planned ahead, and was finally ready to…
On Becoming Roadkill
© 2007 by Joanna Biggar They called us the ‘Thelma and Louise’ of journalism. But when we first set out in 1993, doing America for our Washington-based wire service, we…
Irish Roadwork
In June of this year Writers Workshops International organizers, Barbara Euser and Connie Burke took yet another group of writers out on an amazing travel writing adventure. This time the…
While You Were Out: What goes on in the neighborhood while you're at work may surprise you.
© 2007 by Nicole Clausing Working at home means I see what goes on around the block during working hours. The woman who lives across the street may wonder…