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MOM BABBLE excerpt: Crying In The Laundry
Mary Katherine (MK) Backstrom is the personality behind the thriving MOM BABBLE online community. Over 89 million people have viewed her video content, and she has over 1/2 million followers on Facebook, and 16.7K followers on Instagram. In her essays, she talks about ALL aspects of motherhood — the highs and lows and every weird, […]
Book Giveaway: Best & Worst Advice from My Super Model Mother
Best & Worst Advice from My Super Model Mother By Anna Murray Here’s my mom. Here she is again. And again. It must have been hard with her as your mom. I’ve heard that comment […]
Reading (And Writing) For Hope, Comfort And Happy Ever After
By Jen Gilroy Although I’m a published author, I was and always will be a reader first. From when I consciously “read” my first word (owl to match the colorful picture on a favorite childhood mug), stories have inspired, taught, helped and, especially at difficult times, given me much-needed hope and comfort. Pandemic reading As […]
Behind the Book – Bringing Amy Robsart to Life
I’d known for a long time that one of the historical mysteries I wanted to explore through fiction was the love triangle between Queen Elizabeth I, her favourite Robert Dudley and his wife Amy Robsart. It’s one of the most intriguing and enduring historical mysteries: Did Amy Robsart fall to her death in 1560 or […]
Afraid of the Light
At the start of lockdown it was often said the people least affected, jobs wise, would be the writers. And in some ways that’s true. Every day there’s still a bank of time when I’m glaring at my computer screen (or staring out of the window) hoping for inspiration. But for the first couple of […]
The Creative Surge of Women in Mid-Life
Shifts in consciousness don’t happen in a bubble. The current unfolding of women seeing themselves in a positive light as they grow older is not a singular motion. Rather, it’s the result of a journey of reinvention and reclamation. Each of us has the potential to evolve psychologically and spiritually throughout our lives, and a […]
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Oksana Zabuzhko has been called a Ukrainian combination of Susan Sontag, Adrienne Rich and Rachel Maddow, and her novels have received international fame. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex caused the biggest literary scandal in Ukraine in decades. Since its publication in 1996, it spent 10 years at #1 on the Ukraine’s bestseller list; has been translated […]
Whose Stories Can We Tell? Bonnie E. Carlson
Recent conversations with two editors about stories I wrote got me thinking deeply about this issue: Whose stories can we (legitimately) tell? This issue exploded recently with the publication of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. It’s been debated on TV, in the Twitterverse and in other forums. Must we be a member of a group […]
Writing When It’s Not All Roses And Rainbows
I sat at my computer last night. Really, just sat there. I opened the manuscript of the follow-up to Awakening on Purpose: Trusting the call. Zero motivation came to raise my fingers to the keys. I actually said to myself, “I’m depressed.” And then a strange thing happened. My self answered. “Yes. And?” I sat in […]
On Inventing the Past from a 21st Century Perspective, and Inventing the Present for Future Generations
The year 2020 has become historic within a matter of weeks, even days. There isn’t single person around the world who has not been affected in some way by recent events – every person has their own anxieties, heartbreaks or losses as a result. There are also so many accounts of triumphs and heroics – […]
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