Last week I attended a workshop where I sat with friends and built a vision board for 2019. We cut and tore images from old magazines before pasting them into collages about what we want in our lives. Across the top, I pasted a headline from an article that … [Read more...] about Dream Fearlessly
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Rocking Herstory
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," I … [Read more...] about Rocking Herstory
Free-Range Memoir
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 to Me Isn't … [Read more...] about Free-Range Memoir
When Writing Is Relative
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 I was expected to maintain a public persona that fit my … [Read more...] about When Writing Is Relative