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Writing, reading, and Marla Gibbs

May 28, 2019

I’ve returned to my Camilla Hall manuscript now that the academic year is over. I don’t have anything profound to …

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Look back to move forward

May 1, 2019

I carry a notebook with me almost everywhere. This is just something writers do. I wish I could say my …

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Essay collection review: All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine

April 13, 2019

What do you do when life ceases to make sense? When your 65-year-old mom is diagnosed with a childhood cancer, …

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Martin Zellar on community, success, and perseverance

March 28, 2019

View this post on Instagram A post shared by MJO (@dr.mjo) We’re pretty cool at MNSU, lol! Martin Zellar was …

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The value of a creative arts degree

March 20, 2019

Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk Flickr via Compfight cc I talked to a young woman the other day at MNSU who …

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When you know the answer, what keeps you reading (or watching)?

March 7, 2019

I love reading narrative nonfiction, and that’s the genre for my current writing project. Because I’m in the revision stage …

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REBLOG: If Wishes Were Horses — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

February 23, 2019

Life is about figuring out your priorities. What you put at #1 is going to push something else down to …

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Polar Vortex forces me to blog!

January 29, 2019

Sundogs over Madison Lake on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Air temperature was -8 degrees F. Photo by author. The polar vortex has …

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When you have competing interests, what wins?

January 20, 2019

Photo Credit: verchmarco Flickr via Compfight cc For about three months now, several days a week the first thing I …

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A story revealed through census records

December 10, 2018

Ancestry let me know the other day that I had some documents to review and add to my tree. A …

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