Category Archives: Guest writer
Learning to Divine
By Linda Lenzke DOWSING is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites and many other objects and materials. Dowsing is also known as divining (especially in reference to interpretation … Continue reading
Jeremiah Karpowicz on Digital Storytelling
Jeremiah Karpowicz stumbled onto “True Stories Well Told” earlier this summer and shared his interest in telling stories via electronic features (eFeats) with me. I have always loved the idea of combining images and words to tell stories–I like the … Continue reading
These Hands
By Jillian Hussey I have always liked my hands, even now as the hands of a 73-year-old woman. As I look at the wrinkled, thin skin, and the bulging veins, my mind carries me back over the years in contemplation … Continue reading
Grand MaMa Dovie McMullin’s Good Old Fashioned Southern Communion Butter Bread
By Sherri Bester. This recipe and essay appear in the Meals and Memories Cookbook, sales of which benefit the Odyssey Project. I found myself thinking of Sherri’s writing when I posted about “the Right Word” earlier this week. Sherri’s writing, like April’s, … Continue reading
Letting Go
By Mary Ann Parker When my sons were in elementary school, they all went to Davis Elementary In Plano, Texas,several blocks from our house. Adjoining the school grounds was a small greenbelt area that had a creek running through it. … Continue reading
Crush
By Michael Sprecher “I know someone who has a crush on you!” Here I am four months after graduation from the five year plan at UW- Stevens Point. I’m living at home, recently found out I did not actually graduate … Continue reading
Dad and Darwin
By April Hoffman Entering Dr. Spooner’s basement office, I stared at the rows of large glass jars that crowded against each other on his shelves. In each jar, a long-dead specimen floated in formaldehyde. In one, a giant mud puppy, … Continue reading
Courage (A Report from the Walker Protests)
By Carolyn May Photographs by James Rhem For the first time in my life, I would take action. I was against this “Budget Repair Bill” of Governor Scott Walker’s. The bill with NO compromise was more than this retired teacher could … Continue reading
Please let me publish your true stories, well told!
In the Northern Hemisphere (where I live) the Summer Solstice begins tomorrow–for me, at 1:16 P.M. CDT. I’ll hold off celebrating until next Saturday, when you’ll find me at Madison’s own goofy Parade of Species. Summer… the time when we let … Continue reading
Musings on the Narrator from Jon Franklin
I subscribe to “WriterL,” a listserv published “more or less daily from somewhere near Chesapeake Bay” by Lynn and Jon Franklin. Jon is the author of two books I admire; Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner, … Continue reading
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