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I’ve just returned from being out of the country for two weeks. During that time, I didn’t write anything but a postcard to my mom, assuring...

An alternative title for this post might be “ And then there was one ” because I am shutting down my other, remaining blog, Quotes About Cre...

If you’re looking for a theme or commonality among the people I’ve interviewed for this blog so far, it’s pretty simple—they are all people ...

Dear Garrison Keillor, Please hire new writers for Prairie Home Companion and let them breathe new life into it. PHC is starting to feel lik...

One of the warm-up exercises at the flash fiction workshop I went to last year was to write a six-word short story, inspired by Wired Magazi...

To add to my ongoing, occasional postings on newspapers , in which I've described some of my experiences as a reporter and examined the ...

I have a confession to make, and since I’m not Catholic, I might as well make it in the confession-booth-like confines of this blog posting....

The other week a writer friend took what looked to be a small, striped toiletry bag out of her leather purse, unzipped it and dumped its con...

I am not going to buy a Kindle. Not even if print newspapers disappear and "print" news is available only on such a device. Not ev...

Although I vowed in a November post ( Blog site counters—or spyware? )  that I wouldn’t use Sitemeter here, not long afterwards I added it ...