Yes, it’s been a while since I created a new installment of my video blog series, The Three Minute Writer, but if you’ve been thinking to...

A few months ago, several about-to-be MFA graduates talked about where our post-MFA search for income might lead us. Teaching: Teaching...

Ok, so I’ve spent some time this week pondering this blog and various other ways I interact with you via social media. (For instance, I’m...

Faithful readers of Stories I Read, Stories I Tell will have noticed several guest posts on the blog. Since last Friday, I’ve asked...

I asked my friend, Andrea Cumbo, to write a blog post after she returned from the recent conference hosted by the Association of Writers...

I asked fellow Floridian writer, Marni Mann, to write a guest blog post talking about another project she was involved in after the...

Jillian Lewis approached me about writing a guest post focused on conferences for writers that are held in beautiful, natural...

I was subbing an English class on Monday when my mother sent me a message that my great-Aunt, Gin, had passed away. Aunt Gin had been...

Another month behind us, and here is the February list of books finally rescued from the “To Read” shelf: A Visit From the Goon Squad –...

We had company for seven days last week. It is part of living in Florida: People want to come visit. (We’ve had more visitors in two...

I recently recommended Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way, to a creative friend who has struggled with knowing how to best honor his...

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January is quickly coming to a close. While I pursued my MFA, I kept a reading log. It was a requirement of the program, and it was...

In her recent blog-post response to my 7-7-7 post, my online writer-friend Jen Luitwieler talks about my new “fancy fountain pen” which...

I have a very real and tactile memory of a great number of things from my elementary school, Adams Elementary, in Hamilton, Ohio. I can...

Sometime during the day, yesterday, my blog had it’s 20,000 visit… Yes, there are blogs that receive that many visits every week. Some...

I finished my MFA last week. Queens has a “fifth residency” as a component of the low-residency MFA program. The fifth residency is quite...

One of the exciting, and scary, things about turning the page on another chapter in life is the way the world sort of opens up, for a...

Oh, the “top of the year” lists abound, so why not add one to it. So here, for your reading pleasure, the top blog posts for Stories I...

Holiday get-togethers–friends, family, the spouse’s work party, the church choir social–can be a precarious time for the fledgling...