It's been a pretty fun week. I survived Halloween, renewed my commitment to stop eating sugar after one-too-many bite-sized Snickers...

Sometimes writing's hard. This week felt less like E.L. Doctorow's description of driving at night in the fog and more like a low-budget...

When you've suffered a loss, whether recently or years ago, it changes the course of your life. But life doesn't stop just because you're...

We drove to the beach on Sunday and for the first time in a long time, I went into a total bikini-envy funk. Northern California beaches...

We're back from our trip to Nebraska and I'm filled with both gratitude and sadness. The grandiose part of myself always wants to go...

I missed writing my blog last week because there was a lot going on: several days of crushing despair also known as PMS, a lost and found...

The Fourth Annual Pat Schneider poetry contest is open to submissions postmarked on or before July 1st, 2014. Submissions can be up to...