The Park in Winter
Our local park is always teeming with people walking their dogs, biking, playing sports, swinging. This is the only time we’ve EVER had it to ourselves. It felt very peaceful and sleepy.
Our local park is always teeming with people walking their dogs, biking, playing sports, swinging. This is the only time we’ve EVER had it to ourselves. It felt very peaceful and sleepy.
Courting Mr. Emerson is the second Christian romance I’ve read by Melody Carlson. Even when something in her books isn’t to my taste, I still can’t stop reading. Courting Mr. Emerson was just such a book – entertaining even when I had concerns or pet peeves. And as its merits outweighed any of my pet …
Do hard times inspire us to write more, or dampen our creative spirit? In this workshop delivered at Poetry Society of Indiana’s 2020 Online Fall Rendezvous, Premier Poet Sarah E. Morin hosts an honest conversation about how living in trying times impacts us as writers.
Help me convince my friend that Jane Eyre and Rochester are a great couple!
Is the Hunger Games prequel as good as the original trilogy? I say it’s better.
Last night we launched the 2020 edition of The Polk Street Review.
Here’s a short clip from the twisted fairy tale writing workshop I gave at Fishers Library (Putting a New Spin on Sleeping Beauty). You have another chance to attend Oct 7 in Noblesville! For bonus points, spot the Star Trek reference in the clip.
Are you addicted to fairy tales, but want to tell them your way? I did it, and I’ll show you how you can, too.
It’s my first book trailer for Waking Beauty!
Who do you compare yourself to? Should you? Continue reading
Just as Spike and I were leaving our poetry group, Noble Poets, last night, I caught this image on the wall. The sunset was shining in through large windows on the far side of the room, giving the wall lamp a great shadow. Loved the juxtaposition and had to write poem. Continue reading
My first attempt at redacted poetry. In this form, you take any existing written page and select words from it to create a new poem. You can decorate around it. Spike and I created this while preparing to host a both at Nickel Plate Arts last Valentine’s Day. Something I love about this form is … Continue reading
Today’s poem: Pet owners, you know it’s true! Continue reading
Today’s poem is several years old, written about my husband waaaaaay before he was my husband. I had already played around with the concept of visual space through indentation, but this gave me the opportunity to play with the placement of individual stanzas around the image. Continue reading
Being a morning person is like being a Hufflepuff. No one want to raise their hand and claim to be one. But there are advantages… Continue reading
Today’s poem was inspired by the theme “writer’s block.” Continue reading
Today’s poem is a cat haiku. Continue reading
I’ve been on a poetry kick lately. My goal for 2019 is to enter 100 poems for publication or to contests. So far I have submitted 59. In delving into my poetry trove, I am finding some oldies I’d thought I’d share. Here’s one. Image courtesy of khumthong at freedigitalphotos.net. What’s your … Continue reading
I sat down with W.B. Cornwell and A.N. Williams at Logan Street Sanctuary in Noblesville to ask them about their newest release, Awaiting Dawn: The Story of Avalene, Continue reading