Archive for February, 2024
Women and Adversity: Ada Harris Inventor of the Hair Straightener
February 22, 2024Women and Adversity: Ada Harris Inventor of the Hair Straightener At least 30 women were deprived of glory when men either stole their ideas or were given credit for what women discovered. Sin ...
Women and Adversity: Sahle-Work Zewde
September 22, 2022Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Sahle-Work Zewde President of Ethiopia I’ve never been to Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the eastern part of Africa, which became a democratic r ...
Women and Adversity: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady, Author, Humanitarian
August 25, 2016Eleanor Roosevelt, christened Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, is the longest serving First Lady (1933-1945) and one of the most respected. Her life was filled with adversity: Her beautiful mother w ...
Women and Adversity: Accepting a red eye
August 27, 2015It was an accident. I lifted my left hand to scratch the corner of my eye, and the long nail on my index finger nipped the white. Within minutes the entire white of my eye was beet red, ruby re ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Sports
November 4, 2014Based on an article in the Jan. 7, 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, 90 percent of the American population watches sports. ...
Women and Adversity: Widowhood
October 9, 2014Cheri Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, launched a study concerning widows around the world. It indicated that 13.6 million widows were living in the United States in 2010 ...
Find Your Writing Niche: 5 steps to starting a blog
October 7, 2014Writers want to write—all the time. Beginning writers can start with a blog. Step 1: Choose a topic Write 25 things you are interested in doing, e.g., traveling, swimming, jogging, se ...
Find your writing niche: Kill or cure with details
September 23, 2014Some stories just won’t start. They kill reader’s interest in the first sentence with too many details. Setting goes into character description before dialogue begins. It may be: The golde ...
Find Your Writing Niche: When you travel, even to Mom’s, there’s a story along the way
May 20, 2014You don’t have to visit Rome or Tokyo to write a travel piece. The towns and byways between where Mom and other relatives and friends live hold a wealth of stories. 1) Dog parks. About 37 per ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Look around at your surroundings for ideas
May 13, 2014Ideas for stories are all around us. People continue to achieve outstanding feats, survive overwhelming odds and make life happier for others. Think in terms of events and holidays. 1) Memori ...