I recently finished reading Anna Quindlen's Lots of Candles and Plenty of Cake . It's, you guessed it, another book from the biograp...

I recently completed a weeks-long reflection on pride. I've always considered one of my greatest flaws to be my pride, and I'm too s...

My brother found a summer job with the company I am working for, and we live in the same city, so we carpool to and from work each day. It...

The following is the beginning of the first chapter of the novel I have been working on for some time now (think years; I'm a slow write...

If I were an English teacher, I would allow people to turn in audio essays. Now, I understand that English teachers are supposed to teach ...

I've been thinking about musicals lately and how they work. Most importantly, is there a written equivalent to a "show tune" i...

I am finally getting around to discussing my notes from Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools . It's sure taken me long enough, hasn't...

The day I tried to Google "average length of a letter" and found only results related to cover letters and font sizes, I realized ...

I've read a couple essays/articles about conflict today, and here is what I gained: Conflict is about character. I always put it in ...

The Death Rattle Writers Festival, based in Nampa, ID, was this weekend. I asked my husband to go to the short story event with me, and he s...

Charles Dickens Douglas Adams I let you down by not analyzing my author experiment last week. I forgot and wanted to talk about the...

One of the best things to happen to me in high school was the English assignment to annotate the books we read. Annotate, as in take notes a...

I was doing my hair sometime this week, listening to music, when I had a small epiphany. Small because I've halfway had it before, I jus...

This week, I reviewed a cookbook. Yeah, it was a first. Randy King lives in my area, and he put together a cookbook called "Chef in t...

If you've been following the news at all, this face -- there's just one -- will look familiar. For those unfamiliar with this...

At the time of dreams, I empty my mind, Sweep it clean of the debris of the day, Allow the stress to stream from my fingertips And sink ...

S.L. Farrell's A Magic of Twilight is all about comparisons. Every character, every group, every place, every weapon, has a partne...

I recently wrote a 2C Blog post for the newspaper I work for. It doesn't actually get posted on a blog, so I have no idea why it's c...

My current reading book is Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog . In it, a student asks the language teacher why people learn g...