Defying Gravity

Last night, I went to see Wicked the Musical. Since it was a week-night and we had a toddler bedtime and my husband’s work the next day to consider, Mike suggested I go with someone else. I called my friend Genevieve, who I used to see regularly when we were both still competing at the [...]

Writing with Children

By Kellie R. Stone
Before they publish our novels and we moms even think about hiring a personal assistant, and definitely before that plush private office, we endure writing with children. Now, let me clarify that statement; I don’t mean writing about children, or writing as they write with you; no, it’s much more complicated than [...]

Finding Myself, Again & Again

Today is Monday. For over a year, I spent almost every Monday night meeting with two other writers, one I’d been in grad school with when we were both pursuing our MFA’s in poetry and one my grad school buddy introduced me to at a local woman’s bookstore. We stopped meeting regularly last fall. I [...]

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 [...]