Author: Caroline Peterson of Not Your Average Gal So often, I view the choices I need to make in a strictly formal capacity. Even the...

I get asked a lot to recommend books about writing, so I've finally compiled a list of my top nine. Below, I briefly share who might...

Content warning: grief, death, dying, mention of suicide “Stop trying to wrench control from chaos.” - Elizabeth Gilbert on the podcast...

Five years ago, I visited Joshua Tree National Park while on a road trip out west, leaving chilly Michigan behind for the week. Several...

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month; I can hear your eye roll, but stay with me. Even if you don’t write fiction (or much...

I’m sitting alone in the woods trying not to think of the posted bear warning signs. I’ve just arrived after a four-hour drive through...

Note: This is post #11 in a series of blog posts about my experience attending a 2-week writing retreat with author & teacher Natalie...

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I woke up this morning to a wild craving. I wanted the quiet of Madeline Island with a near-madness, the Wisconsin paradise where I spent...

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At the end of the two-week writing retreat with Natalie in the last hour of the last session with her, she said something that made me...

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