Do you envy? What are you going to do about it?

August 21, 2012

This essay by Erika Schickel in L.A. Observed is getting some flak in the writing world. In the essay, Schickel …

A somber anniversary

August 18, 2012

If you live in Minnesota, likely you’re aware that we’re marking the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota Conflict. If you …

August 17, 2012

Originally posted on Tracy Rittmueller:
Make new friends, keep the old; some are silver, some are… The first Girl-Scouting Lesson I…

August 15, 2012

(“Sponsor” of this blog being my full-time employer, Kaplan University. Without full-time employment, I would be a starving writer. Therefore, …

August 14, 2012

“I see beauty in the ugly,” Richard Harris says in this Chronicle of Higher Education article, “A Healthy Mania …

August 11, 2012

I spent some time writing this morning. I write best when I leave the house. I had planned to meet …

August 10, 2012

I look forward to reading Jill Lepore‘s The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. I was alerted …

August 9, 2012

“As a writer, your job is not merely to write; your job is to get people to care about what …

August 6, 2012

Tanner Kent was nice enough to interview me about my writing journey for the August 3 edition of The Mankato …

August 1, 2012

Driving on country roads or rural highways in southern Minnesota, you go miles without seeing anything other than farms and …