The Slow Vanishing Short Story Collection Debuts
Award-winning poet Maureen Sherbondy ventures into fiction with her debut short-story collection, The Slow Vanishing. The collection combines flash fiction and longer stories, some of which first appeared in Stone Canoe, the North Carolina Literary Review, the Sierra Nevada College Review, and other literary journals. One of the stories in the collection was a runner-up [...]
Sunday Thoughts
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, [...]
Sunday Thoughts
My name is Kathy, and I’ll be helping out with this blog from time to time. This is awesome for me, because I love the whole relationship thing. There’s nothing better in the world than a relationship that works. On Sundays I thought I’d offer thoughts, quotations, reflections, etc. Just some light, fun stuff to [...]
‘Against All Odds’ A Compelling Tale of Faith and Second Chances
Even during Mark Whitacre‘s darkest days in prison, he considered himself a fortunate man. He had the love of his wife and family and the support of friends. As he tells it now, it took hitting rock bottom and losing everything for him to learn the most valuable lessons in life: family and supportive friends [...]
9 Creative Steps to Being Happy
Happiness is solicited in so many ways. But the hard part is how to stay happy. But now, here is a unique measuring tool for people in search of happiness, a free happiness tip sheet in line with Happiness Happens month for August. Go ahead and see if the grass is greener on the other [...]