Category Archives: Guest writer
What Does a Gal Have to Do to See Professional Women’s Soccer?
The Season of Sports continues… By Rita Nygren When I was 13 years old and following my big brothers around everywhere, it was a no brainer to continue playing soccer. I’d been playing co-ed recreational leagues since I was 8, … Continue reading
Football and Feminism, 1972
The “Season of Sports” continues… By Leslie Howard, reprinted with permission from What She Said Like many women, I didn’t recognize my foray into the women’s movement for what it was until years later. I attended Lafayette College beginning in … Continue reading
To Watch or to Participate?
The “Season of Sports” continues… By Marjorie Turner Hollman I spent many of my early school years being a spectator. I was always the one to wait, to let others go first, to see what might happen before I jumped … Continue reading
On Becoming A Jock
The “Season of Sports” continues… By Donna Biddle As a kid, I mainly played games: Tag, mother may I, red rover, cowboys and indians, made model planes, and of course board games on hot Indiana afternoons when we were not … Continue reading
The Gift of Sports
We interrupt this blog post to encourage you to visit my Upcoming Workshops page to see my exciting new summer offerings! Now back to “The Season of Sports.” By Dawn Crim As told to Sarah White at a story capture event … Continue reading
I Can’t Join the Tennis Team
The “Season of Sports” continues! What has been the role of competitive sports in your life? Comment! Or better yet, send me your stories to publish. See guidelines here. By Joan Collins As told to Sarah White at a story capture event for … Continue reading
Get Your Skates On!
The “Season of Sports” continues… By Linda Lenzke “I want anyone who has ever said or felt that women are weak in any way to strap on a pair of skates and play two minutes of roller derby with them.” … Continue reading
Archie Smith
By Doug Elwell This piece was written in response to the prompt “characters I have known.” Doug describes it as creative nonfiction: “Each of the characters are real. The setting is real. Dialogue is in the voice of the characters … Continue reading
The Underpants
ourBy Katie Ravich I wrote this piece during a writing workshop given by Lynda Barry. The first step was to write about a memorable object. This appears in the third paragraph of this piece. The memorable object was a pair … Continue reading
Fifty Years, Part 2
By Paul Ketterer Part 2 in a 2-part essay. For Part 1, click here. The venue is appropriate. The VFW hall was born in the 1940s, formed into completion in the 1960s, and has been going to seed ever since in a … Continue reading
True Stories Well Told 