Count Me a Contemporary American Woman

Check out my essay, “How Did I Get Roped Into This?” in Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, available this month from All Things That Matter Press. This will make a great Christmas present for those beautiful strong women (or men) in your life. And for you professors, this exciting nonfiction anthology addresses women’s issues [...]

Read This: The War of Art

It’s been a long time since a book on writing has inspired me to copy long passages, but Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles makes me want to hang quotes up on my wall just so I can be reminded that all the reasons I [...]

I Am A Fever

Had a poem published in Literary Mama today! Read it here.

Book Challenge: Top 100 Books by Women Authors

When my husband and I moved in together, we were two former English majors merging our books (and our music collections, but that’s another story). I wanted some organization system, so I made a hodge podge of subject and genre categories: poetry, novels, philosophy, pop culture, spirituality, etc. We had twelve bookcases, but only [...]

Read: ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg
I finally found a book that understands why I want to deviate from a schedule the minute I’ve created it. Instead of some complicated system that makes me feel even less organized, ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life offers practical advice that’s straightforward to implement — [...]

Long Quiet Highway

I went to see Natalie Goldberg in April when she was in Austin doing for a book signing for Old Friend from Far Away.  I was interested in hearing Natalie talk about her book on writing memoir for three reasons.

She’s one of my American idols. I started using Writing Down the Bones when I was [...]