Intellectual Freedom and Writers by Lynn Lovegreen
In this month of Independence Day, it is relevant to consider our intellectual freedom. It is the “rights of library users to read, seek information, ...
The Joy of the Middle: Finding Writing Contentment Wherever You Are by Andromeda Romano-Lax
When my first creative book, a travelogue called Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez was published a million years ago, I was already working on the first ...
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Still Calling Me Daughter: an essay in my late 40s by Jessica Cherry
This February it was dark and sprinkling rain and I was walking up a steep hill in Wallingford from the Burke-Gilman Trail pushing the silver ...
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Spot Light on New Books: I Love You More, a Reluctant Memoir by Joan Burleson
“Decades after the events of November 1973, I still struggled with understanding, accepting, moving on… Although I was seventeen when my father hired Jones to ...
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What I’ve Learned About Learning and the Fight to Control It by Nancy Lord
This spring I was honored to be chosen by the Friends of the Homer Public Library as the recipient of the 2024 Lifelong Learner Award. ...
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Who Feels Comfortable? by Anette Coggins
“Writing about your own life should feel a bit like taking your clothes off in front of strangers or saying things you would normally only ...
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Alignments by Michael Engelhard
“Look at the boaters down there.” As a nonfiction writer with a passion for history and adventure, I sometimes tap webs that link individuals over ...
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Birding and Wording by Sean Ulman
Don’t feel like writing today? Nor doing much of anything. Yet you know writing (something, [anything!]) is precisely the thing to do to get going. ...
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Lessons that Cross Genres from a Writer Who Leaped into Suspense Fiction by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Next week, my first suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, will be published. It’s my sixth novel and a big departure from my previous genres of ...
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