Battling Bias Complicity
How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
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The Garden Secret
A dogged heroine struggles to untangle herself from the mysterious Vine. In her debut novel, Daughters of the Wild, Natalka Burian crafts a tale of magical realism mixed with a woman’s determination to…
Military Camo – Disguising Child Neglect?
Military Camo – Disguising Child Neglect? This week I visited my son and his family – they just had a new baby boy whom we wanted to meet. My son…
Live Blog Chat With Interesting Author Dec 23!!!
Well, yes. You would be correct if you guessed that the interesting author will be me. And I know some of you get to chat with me a lot in…
An Inspiration – A Lesson in Giving…
[picapp src=”0214/0b77d1c4-0ec8-4cac-9f06-b931430430c2.jpg?adImageId=7332600&imageId=218009″ width=”234″ height=”317″ /]I always try to find some way for my young kids (ages 8 and 11) to get involved in helping others. And this year, I have…
Snapshots: Impressions From Births & Birthdays…
Impressions From a Stillbirth: There is no crying upon entry to the world. There is no sound at all, and it is the most horrible silence you could imagine. There…
Poison Control on Speed Dial??….
Last night I went with my kids, and my daughter’s family, trick-or-treating. Her cute two-year-old was dressed as a gorilla (he’s big for his age, what can I say?). As…
Communion Through Candy….Really.
[picapp src=”0276/f6069bb7-b25f-4042-977c-de038dec783e.jpg?adImageId=6977386&imageId=279648″ width=”234″ height=”352″ /]The Problem: I moved to a new office building at work, and was lucky enough to get an office with a real door and three walls;…