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It took a year to write 324 words. Midway Journal recently selected “Postcard from My Future Self: Inland Empire” as one of the contest winners in their flash prose contest. This micro essay began as part of an email not […]
In late June 2005, Mom and I embarked on a five week, cross-country road trip. I was in the midst of what I call mid-life crisis, part one. After I quit my job, Dad and I purchased a 37-foot RV, […]
Last Spring, Wanderlust Journal posted a submission call for postcards, fifty-word micro-essays about travel with an accompanying image. Easy enough, I thought. In addition to thousands of digital files on my computer, the closet in my home office is stacked […]
I dreamed about the dramatic difference that my Before and After shots would reveal. For most of my life, stuck in the muck of food addiction and restriction, I believed that if I were thinner, life would magically become better. […]
When Utah passed a law allowing “free-range parenting” at the end of March 2018, I understood better the need and purpose for such legislation. A few weeks earlier, I had reported on the panel, “The Enhanced Memoir: When It Happened […]
A few years ago, while attending an author event at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, I saw a calendar that proclaimed, “Authors are my rockstars.” When I reported on the AWP event, “The Historical Women: Reimagining Past Narratives Through the Contemporary Perspective,” […]
Over the course of the last few years while working on my memoir about my relationship with my body and struggle with food addiction, writing about family became one of my greater challenges. I grew up in a home where […]