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For well over a century women have suffered under the burden of penis envy, one of many suppositions upon which Sigmund Freud built a career. Does anyone know the size of Sigmund? is a question […]

One of the most unusual places on earth is Leticia, Colombia, a port on the Amazon River.

It is located at the very bottom of a narrow strip of land hanging down from Colombia into Peru. Brazil […]

Other than gardening, there’s no more satisfactory activity for springtime than planning summer reading. The stack by my reading chair is already teetering, but here are the first things I plan to read:

The […]

One day I ate a mushroom
And traveled with a snail,
Who led me down some sort of path,
A crazy winding trail.

The locomotion of the snail
Would lose him any race:
He stops and starts, goes inch by […]

Upstairs Mama talked to me. I stood where the bathroom window stuck out. The roof could be seen below and the back yard.

“You are going to have a baby brother or baby sister. Would you like a baby […]

Incline thine ears to hear my sayings,
And apply thine heart to their comprehension.
For it is a profitable thing to put them in thy heart.”

Composed in Ancient Egypt between 1550 and 1070 BC […]

CAMEO

Leaving
your little face
was a cameo etched
in sadness…like the falling snow
falling
falling
white hour on hour
pure and silent as a
consecration…sacred as a
teardrop.

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Join us March 3-9, 2013 for a celebration of Words Matter Week! This year, we’re focusing on clarity of expression. The chosen quote is by John Ray:

 
He that uses many words
for the explaining of any […]

Hello, pretty girl.

“Who are you?”

You know who I am.

“Don’t you know my name?”

Melanie Faith.

“Thank you.”

You seem on the verge of expectation.

“I don’t understand.”

As though […]

Her presence moved over my shoulder. “Is that a poem?”
“Indeed it is,” I answered, seeking and pushing each key carefully.
“We teach business and secretarial; I’ve never seen anybody type a […]

If you have one major disability, that’s sad.

If you have two major disabilities, that’s a tragedy.

If you have three, Damn!

If you have four, that’s a catastrophe.

But if you have […]

I’m just back from the Technologically Advanced Publishing (TAP) Conference with a light sunburn and a head full of ideas for using what I learned.

For this event, I focused on learning in a completely […]

Long ago, books were regarded as treasures and cared for with a measure of respect. This nostalgic excerpt details the way my grandmother taught me how to open a new book without breaking the spine. A hardcover […]

If you write, and you’re considering the new frontier of digital publishing / e-publishing, here are links to resources that will help you learn how to publish in Kindle, DPS, ePub, iBook, and other formats. There […]