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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 […]

What a blast. What an amazing sensation–to be in a banquet hall full of people who do the same thing I do, who have the same passions and issues I have, who enjoy the same process and skill-level I possess.

I […]

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 […]

Because we need each other.

We need to shake each other’s hands and look into each other’s eyes. We need to sit down and gab without the constraints of keyboards, clients, and kids. We need time to get to know […]

Ghostwriters Gather from Around the Globe for Unique Conference (via PR Newswire)
Now open for registrations, Ghostwriters Unite! pioneers education and community for “invisible” freelance writers and editors […]

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 […]