© 2011 by Robert Rosborough I feel the dust hit my tongue as I step out of our minibus, avoiding a pair of goats that seem unconcerned that the rest…

© 2010 Leslie Lee I never imagined how much I would learn by collaborating on a story.  What’s even more surprising is that I’ve never met my co-writer, Carolyn Chang,…

by Terry Sue Harms Now that my novel, Pearls My Mother Wore, is on the market, I’m satisfied that self-publishing was the right path for me to take. Four years…

© 2010 Greg Jones I’m headed to Tres Bocas on the Rio Sarmiento in Argentina’s Parana River Delta. It’s a voyage of discovery. I don’t pretend to understand this country…

©2010 by Cheryl McLaughlin Moguls skier Alex Bilodeau won the first Gold medal for Canada at the Vancouver Olympic Games and credited his older brother who has cerebral palsy. At…

©2010 by Patricia Bracewell On a sunny July day in Fecamp, Normandy, I stood in front of the stony corpse of an 11th century ducal palace, studying the ruin before…

Make a New Year’s Resolution to write for Roadwork in 2010. Left Coast Writers on-line column is published bi-monthly, and editor Pat Bracewell is looking for 1000-word essays about writing,…

©2009 by Chana Wilson The tiny Calistoga airport sits at one end of the Napa Valley town of Calistoga, a tourist resort known for its hot springs.  Along the town’s…

© 2009 by Joanna Biggar January 21, 2009…For forty years I have been going to the National Mall to celebrate, to witness and to participate in history. I’ve been there…

© 2009 by Patricia Woeber Alpes-Maritimes, France The Cote d’Azur brings to mind luxurious hotels and the cachet of the Mediterranean coast stretching from Cannes to Menton, yet this strip…