(I touched on this topic in 2011 in a series about writing "soundtracks.")  I'm always interested in other people's playli...

In addition to Earth Day and Poetry Friday , today happens to also be our TeachingAuthors' Blogiversary ! So this is a special, unsche...

Because I am in Cairo in this minute and because it is Poetry Month and Poetry Friday, it seems appropriate to flow into a poem by an Egypt...

Howdy Campers ~ and happy Poetry Month 2022 , Poetry Friday and April Fools Day! (my poem and the link to Poetry Friday are below)  Carmela...

The truth is, I’ve pretty much put The Real Me in my posts these past 13 years… at least the key facets that define me. I bleed Chicago-...

  Free Photo Courtesy of BBC One Following Zeena’s wonderfully powerful story-–as a journalist in El Salvador and as a journalist during the...

  I believe in the power of story, which is why I’m a storyteller. First as a journalist, then as a theater director, photographer, and visu...

Howdy, Campers, and happy Poetry Friday! (My poem, t he links to PF and  to my upcoming classes are below). We  in the  TeachingAuthors  tre...

 My husband laughed when I told him the subject of this post. "What can you possibly write that you haven't either put in a book or...