Category: writing

How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Starting a new writing project is like being dropped into a lush landscape with all kinds of amazing plants, animals, people, all of them fascinating and exciting, all jostling in joyous creative cacophony with hidden plots just waiting to be uncovered. It starts off so crowded, I have to get out the machete and start…

  • Anna Bowles, a British writer, does volunteer work in Ukraine and writes about it. I subscribe to her blog because her work touches my heart. She’s a poet as well as an essayist and offered some of her recent published poetry in a blog titled Weapons Grade Poetry. My only words about her words are…

  • Regardless of whether people favor or abhor the current actions of the Trump administration, three facts are undeniable. While these facts, reported by universally respected news outlets, might lead to results that please some people (shuttering various agencies, gutting regulations that feel constraining to corporations), the broader outcome should worry all Americans. If this president…