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Nothing beats the freedom of summer reading. One book after another. On the dock, in the hammock, laying down, sitting up, even walking from couch to fridge there is so much time, space and place to read. During my most recent sabbatical ...

It's been my experience as a freelance writer, especially in the beginning years, that there can be stretches of time between assignments that can be a blessing in a very good disguise. Those gaps  between projects used to make me nervous, until ...

"That is absolutely incredibly magnificent. I LOVE it!" That is stage one of a writer's group, usually for beginning writers who are building courage. It's a huge deal to read your writing in front of others. A safe group brimming over with ...

"Write in real time." That was Taylor Swift's writing advice to 45,000 (mostly girls and women of course) in Toronto's Rogers Centre last week. Clearly, writing is therapeutic to Swift. She didn't apologize. And she gave a prescription to her faithful followers: ...

Someday, I can write about this. That's what I thought as I flopped around like a gagging rag doll in my husband's arms as he performed the Heimlich maneuver-ish to dislodge the olive pit stuck in my throat. In the first five ...

The other day, I diagnosed a friend with OWS (Other Writer Syndrome). She was telling me that she used to think she would write a book, until she read the writing of someone else and grew discouraged. My friend is suffering from ...

Read this article on how to expand your giving, published in Childview.

A how-to on interesting your children in homework, including a look into the mind of a homework-avoiding mastermind, published in Childview.

A writing mentor can make all the difference. I have had several. Now one of my greatest joys is to be one. And I absolutely still need one. I think the most effective and empowering mentoring is organic. A friendship is growing. ...

Two inches past busy. That is how much writing and editing I like to have and how busy I like to be. That means my plate is stacked high, but nothing is falling off the edge. I can still carry it. A ...

Who cares? It's such a rude question. And essential for the writer to ask. I can read over some of my own blog postings here on this very site (when enough time has passed and I'm no longer smitten with the very blogfullness ...

I helped write the Conversation Guide to accompany this challenging DVD series featuring Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne.