Women and Adversity
Women and Adversity: Assisted Suicide, Brittany Maynard
November 13, 2014Women and Adversity: Assisted Suicide Brittany Maynard When I hear “assisted suicide,” I think of the 1969 movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” People accept animals being euthanized, ...
Women and Adversity: Kaci Hickox
November 6, 2014Women and Adversity: Kaci Hickox Nurse Kaci Hickox learned she could experience continued adversity once she left Sierra Leone where she was treating victims of the deadly virus Ebola with Doctor ...
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: Jetta Fosburg reacts to bullying
October 30, 2014It’s hard to believe that a 10-year-old girl has to defend herself against other kids who criticize, basically bully, her because she cut her hair. She decided to donate 14-inches of her hair to W ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Choose a Cause
October 28, 2014Email inboxes explode with requests for support——heart association, cancer groups, local charities. I say, choose a cause and write about it. How? What cause grips your emotions? Ever ...
Women and Adversity: Spendthrift Extraordinaire
October 23, 2014"The Best of Everything,” a Rev. Curtis Black novel by Kimberla Lawson Roby, addresses a topic that fits in the category of addiction: overspending. Alicia, the 22-year-old daughte ...
Women and Adversity: Malala Yousafzai
October 16, 2014I was delighted to read that Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim from Pakistan, has won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, although she is sharing it with Kailash Satyarthi, a Hindu from India. Malala is the yo ...
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 ...
Women and Adversity: Rejection
October 2, 2014Rejection sucks. Having editors and agents reject queries and stories is a particular disadvantage to being a writer, especially being a freelance writer. I’ve worked in the industry for ...
Women and Adversity: Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
September 25, 2014Domestic violence gained headlines and earned hours of TV and radio time over the past few weeks, but Anna Quindlen brought the topic to the forefront and bestseller status in 1998 with her nove ...