Literary Wisdom for a Lighter Mind & Home Unexpected treasures found in a tchotchke box. I’m clearing the air. Here’s a few literary...

I guess it’s common knowledge that imagination is a must-have tool in the novelist’s bag of tricks. All those scenes and dialogue and thoughts come to life by little sparks flying in a writer’s brain.

A Nun, a Rifle, and the Day a Neighborhood Chose a Family Juan and Eloina Fernandez I’m a midwestern girl and my last name is Fernandez...

The house is on fire, it’s like the hallway is now a mile long and we’re far apart. I run out the front, smoke is billowing.

I work in simultaneous possibilities — market my current book, sell the anthology with my short story, write Book 2.

My Mom Pride took a nosedive. I felt duped by comic-book companies.

Using the opening lines from literature as triggers to recall anecdotes reminds me of hanging out with friends and swapping stories.

Filling her space in the universe and wishing her the world.

I want to write a note about my friend Amy who has recently passed away.

This is a space for women to turn to other women. Learn from others’ stories. Notice life phases of our sisters. Teach our daughters.

There’s a baby in my novel and while speeding through the plot I think I’ve overlooked him.

Imagine an opening line for your life. What tidbit would you dangle?

An epic birthday subterfuge when the entire family galvanizes to surprise a suspicious older brother.

On the eve of the Olympic Track and Field Trials and numerous setbacks hope for another beginning.

An unexpected phone call untangles a chaotic career beginning

Locked out of the house and a strange encounter on a San Francisco bus brought kindness to the surface

How a Valentine’s Day chain letter multiplied romance

Discovering lessons from a concentration camp survivor from Terezin.

I want to be an amateur. Tons less stress to be admitting RIGHT FROM THE START ...