Tea Time Stories: Entertaining
How About Curling Up with a Good Story? How about tea with all the authors you love – or hate? Dinner with Barbara Cartland does not go as planned.
Up & Down
Until the hovering crystal ladder appeared, no one in Turnersville noticed the dented aluminum bucket, with its sisal rope handle, resting in Hobson’s field…
No Tock-Tick
Master ablaut reduplication? You already have – even though you have no idea what it is! Here are four speech rules you didn’t know you know.
Vandals at the Frame
Destruction of art has a long and glorious tradition. But there is a difference between the vandal and the artist destroying the work.
Powerless Speech: 3 Disagreeable Vocal Habits You Can Cure
Be confident. Your voice is your superpower. Here are three pointers and exercises to improve your voice and delivery – and eliminate powerless speech habits.
30 Quick Ideas to Spark Creativity
Creatives get stuck. Writer’s block? Hovering pencil? Haven’t pressed the shutter in weeks? Here are 30 ideas to get you going again.
An Open Very Nasty Letter to the Asshole in the White Van
My patience and compassion are gone. If you hurt me or mine, I will sue. I will hunt you and yours down with the nuclear power of a supernova.
The Hurricane
A poem about death and loss, and the hopelessness akin to enduring a hurricane when there is nothing you can do but wait it out.
Our Space
Motherhood is a role I had. My job is done. My future is to follow the roads my children chart. No one needs me. What am I now? What is my role? Who am I now?
Choose Happy
Positive psychologists have calculated the exact elements for happiness: “The Happiness Formula.” No, it’s not a complicated mathematical equation… no worries.
The 13 Rules of Communication
The axioms of communication are rules meant to be followed. If you want to be a competent communicator, keep reading to learn the rules!
Because I’m Worth It.
Why do I look so young? I admit that I have a painting in a hidden, dark hallway of my home. I had to make a deal with the devil for it.