Category Archives: Guest writer
Shooting at the Baltimore Catechism
By Doug Elwell This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or not, is entirely coincidental. Hi … Continue reading
Old Letters Become Time Machine to the Past (On the APH blog)
Last Saturday I attended a family launch party for a book of letters that I just published for a client. Seeing a book (or any form of personal history you’ve helped produce) welcomed by its intended audience is one of the … Continue reading
An Elegantly Simple Act
By Doug Elwell This is a work of creative non-fiction. Some names, characters, places, dialog or descriptions have been changed or added. In those cases, any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Fred … Continue reading
The House That Jasper Built
By Kaye Ketterer This is part 2 of a 2-part reminiscence about Kaye’s childhood home. There was nothing extraordinary about the house I grew up in, yet everything about it was extra-ordinary by today’s standards. The house was built in about … Continue reading
The Barn
By Kaye Ketterer This is part 1 of a 2-part reminiscence about Kaye’s childhood home. I am the youngest of four children who grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm in the 1950’s and 1960’s. My Dad was the … Continue reading
Small Things
At a recent Salon at Pinney Library we had fewer readers than time slots available, so I offered a writing exercise. I asked people to think about something meaningful they have with them in the room, then challenged them to write facts (1 minute), … Continue reading
Flight or Invisibility
By Diane Hughes The NPR program about the special powers of superheros bored me. I’m not a fan of superheroes but just as I was thinking of searching for the classic rock station, the guy says “So I started asking … Continue reading
A Boy with a Hammer Does His Part
By Lawrence Landwehr Ever since my mother and I had come to live with her parents on their farm and ranch, I had access to small hand tools such as hand saws, pliers, wrenches, etc. As a boy, the tool … Continue reading
From Cursive to Computer
There has been a lot of handwringing about the demise of cursive writing this year. An NPR piece about it aired as I drove to teach the first session of a memoir writing workshop back in March. It inspired me … Continue reading
Underwater Surprises
The season of vicarious wanderlust on True Stories Well Told rolls on through end of June. By Rita Nygren Not far from Cake, Alaska, we woke up at 4am to the sound of a dozen eagles yelling at each other as they … Continue reading
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