On Story Collections and Playing With Other Genres I’ve always wanted to write books, and night after night spent reading The Bobbsey Twins with a flashlight under the covers nudged me in the dir [ Read More ]
My parents claimed I memorized the Mother Goose book by age two. Not that I was reading it, mind you. Mom read to me; Dad did too, but as a teacher/preacher he was a constant reader. I come from a [ Read More ]
The worst thing about being sick, for me (besides the actual being sick) is that I have to stop. Stop what I’m doing (usually working) and just lie there and look around at the place I call & [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Lynn Lanning
by Lynn Lannin I must confess. I haven’t always loved to read. Strangely enough, I have always loved to write. As a child, my grandmother, who raised me, always read to me sometime during the day [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Lyneta Smith
Take Me Away “Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened, and your trays are in the upright and locked position.” By the time the flight attendant gives final t [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Dana R. Lynn
“I’ve been in a reading slump.” I’ve heard this before from various friends and acquaintances, but I’ll be honest, I’d never truly understood the term. There was always something new to [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Amy Walsh
Books, Earbuds, and the Kitchen Sink One of my biggest blessings is also a problem. I’m talking about reading. It’s not “oh, I enjoy a good book now and then” reading. It’s the kind w [ Read More ]
Pages Of My Life – Emily Wright
by Emily Wright I like my comfort zone. I like how predictable it is–it’s safe, invulnerable, and, well, comforting. Just to give you an example, I’ve been attending the same chur [ Read More ]
Story of My Life – by Crystal Caudill
There are some books we as authors write that are as much for the author as for the readers. Sung in the Shadows, my newest release, was that book for me . . . even though I didn’t want to write [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Tathel Miller
by Tathel Miller I was first introduced to the poem Where I’m From written by writer and teacher, George Ella Lyon at a writing conference several years ago. Her poem, Where I’m From has be [ Read More ]