Why my Bombeck badge matters
This badge arrived attached to an email announcing that one of my essays now lives on the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop website.
Dancing with words
I go to refill my coffee and see the clock advance, its hands beckoning me to dance.
Identifying the muse at table 12
It is dinner time and the place is packed, mostly with tourists I would guess, drawn in by the sign at the entrance proclaiming “Birthplace of Harry Potter.”
Accomplished well before midnight
Writing live from a Panera Bread in Aurora on the 31st day of March, it’s Lisa Marlin. This is my last chance to get a fourth post in before the stroke of midnight — a March challenge from two other creative sorts. That’s seven hours away, but...
Throwaway notes, forever hugs
…the napkin note is not forbidden. It has long been a secret passage into my children’s hearts.
Why writers should live in messy houses
…between paragraphs, I am changing out loads of laundry, taking the dog for a walk and making a shopping list…