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Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.

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Natural Healing

Natural Healing

Natural Healing November 1974.  Formal instruction in Transcendental Meditation. I breathed deeply and absorbed the pungent incense and the dusky wood smoke from a recent fire. Quiet breaths and the vibration of my mantra.  Thoughts came and went. My newborn son swaddled in white cotton. . .The endless stream of tears. . .Swirling the pastel […]

March 28, 2024 | By | Reply More
The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator

The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator

The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator By Jo Salas, author Mrs. Lowe-Porter, available now In 1942 the German novelist Thomas Mann wrote to his long-time translator, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter: “Your story which I return to you with sincere thanks is a very lovable, heartwarming piece of work of a delicate cello sound […]

March 27, 2024 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh

Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh

Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh About IN TUNE A tour manager determined to revitalize her career. The client she can’t stop thinking about. Workplace romance hits the road in this enemies-to-lovers romance from JN Welsh. Luke Anderson needs a manager—fast. His last one quit, leaving his tour and his future in jeopardy. Now instead of […]

March 26, 2024 | By | Reply More
JUST WRITE by Deborah Driggs

JUST WRITE by Deborah Driggs

JUST WRITE Writing has changed my life. It is not an easy task: it requires me to be vulnerable, open, and honest and to share my journey in the hopes it might provide help for someone out there going through a similar challenge. Sometimes I write just to have a good laugh about something I […]

March 25, 2024 | By | Reply More
Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten 

Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten 

Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten  Leah Chyten has been a philosopher since youth. Before attending college, she homesteaded in Maine, where she raised animals, vegetables, and children, and compiled a collection of songs, poetry, short stories and a novel. Her second novel was inspired by the painful complexities of the state […]

March 24, 2024 | By | Reply More
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers

Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers

Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers By Nan Lundeen Today we need a lightness of being. We need Wordsworth’s daffodils and the wisdom of Mary Oliver’s dog Percy whose bottom line on how to live her life after she asks his advice is “trust.” When three a.m. thoughts rummage around in my mind […]

March 24, 2024 | By | Reply More
On Writing Elizabeth’s Mountain

On Writing Elizabeth’s Mountain

Emotion-heavy women’s fiction is the genre that captures me the most. It is the one that stays with me long after I have finished a book, which is why I write in the genre I most like to read. Living all those experiences of longing, pain, or misfortune, the characters who overcome difficulties and hardships […]

March 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Laila Ibrahim On Writing AFTER THE RAIN

Laila Ibrahim On Writing AFTER THE RAIN

AFTER THE RAIN Story behind the story Laila Ibrahim I was inspired to write this book after seeing protesters at a marriage equality rally in the late 1990s. I was struck by the group of teens and parents holding up signs declaring marriage should only be between a man and a woman. I imagined they […]

March 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic 

Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic 

Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic  We began writing together in lockdown as, living over two hundred miles apart, it was a good way of keeping in touch and sharing something we both enjoyed. Neither of us could have imagined that we would continue to write novels together. There are other writing duos, such […]

March 21, 2024 | By | Reply More
Writing Requirement: Have Fun

Writing Requirement: Have Fun

Writing Requirement:  Have Fun by Saralyn Richard I have taught creative writing off and on for a long time—to high school students and to senior citizens, to aspiring authors who made writing their careers, and to leisure-time writers who were testing the waters of their talents. No matter who the learners were, the process was […]

March 21, 2024 | By | Reply More