6 Ways You Can Spread Kindness, Hope, and Good Cheer With Just a Pen
You’re probably familiar with the saying,“The pen is mightier than the sword,” coined by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and for good reason. The idea [...]
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A Marriage, Best Left Unturned
My six-year-old son, Asher, and I walk along the creek bed half a mile from our small yellow house in our suburban neighborhood. He loves it when we fish for leaves and [...]
Sweatpants & Creativity | Family Story Jumpstart Template
When it comes to holiday family gatherings there are so many occasions where we all fall into telling stories about favorite times, or hilarious ones. We sit around the [...]
Giveaway | “All The Write Moves” Book Proposal Course by Anna David
Do you have a book you’ve been wanting to write, but you don’t know how to get started? I know from experience that writing a book proposal can be a daunting [...]
Personal Essays | The Opposite of Failure
I am 42 years old, and I love being a writer. But I haven’t always done much of it. I wrote short stories as a kid, often with the help of my dad. As a teen, I wrote a [...]
Sweatpants & Books l Slam Poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre’s “A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry”
I put flip flops on in the dark this morning only to realize a few hours later than they don’t match. It’s been one of those days. The ones where you wish you [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | H.P. Lovecraft: the Good, the Bad, and the Eldritch
What do Batman, Dungeons & Dragons, Black Sabbath, Evil Dead, Neil Gaiman, and Rick and Morty have in common? Apart from general awesomeness, they share ties to the same [...]
Sweatpants & Soul | Soup Ministry
I taught myself how to make soup a few years ago. I was well into my 30s and already a mom. I wanted to make soup the way my mother did, rich with herbs and tubers and the [...]
Sweatpants & Culture | Poet Nikki Giovanni
Born on this day in 1943, Nikki Giovanni continues to dream the world around her into a better place. [...]
Sweatpants & Relationships | My Cheerleader
Before I met the man who would become my husband, I worried. First, I worried if I would ever meet him at all. Then I worried if he would take my career seriously—I am a [...]
