Category: <span>newspaper writer</span>

ORIGINS Blogfest…In Which a Poet Morphs into a Book-Writing Mom

For the Origins Blogfest, we’re supposed to chronicle our earliest remembrances of our writing superpowers…okay, maybe not superpowers, as you’ll quickly find out below. As you can tell from my monkey bar photo above, I had a highly cerebral childhood! Seriously, though, I was ambidextrous till K-4 (they made me choose), I read a LOT, and I liked phonics. This… Read More

“Credentials”

My husband encouraged me to list my “credentials” (such as they are) for writing! Well, I started writing poetry as a teen and won a couple of contests. I majored in Humanities at college, so that included taking a wide variety of writing classes, from News Writing to Short Story writing. Not to mention a lot of English literature classes… Read More