Hey ya’ll, it’s getting about that time to prepare for the Allied Media Conference again! Time is really flying by, I missed the last couple years but I am going for sure this year and would like to do a workshop. Currently they are accepting proposals: http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/propose I was thinking of doing one along the [...]

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So I’ve been thinking about writing for mainstream magazines. By mainstream I don’t just mean the ones sold in the supermarket checkout line, but those with even a modest press run and/or those you rarely see in newsstands. For example utne reader is an indie-type mainstream mag I like. off the top of my head [...]

What follows is a self-involved rant/pity fest about my time and work issues. It culminates in a triumphant vow to stand atop my creative and business life that will become fiscally successful. In the meantime, I do what I gotta do. So I have this job at teenybox, a small software/web-type company. It’s ok, the [...]

I just started a group for Mamaphonic: Pics from members and friends of Mamaphonic.com, a web zine offering monthly content from emerging writers and poets. Designed for and by artists who are also mothers, Mamaphonic provides an active discussion board community with practical advice, resources, and opportunities to interact with writers, visual artists, zinesters, musicians, [...]

Remember my post Jack Frost Is Trying to Kill Me? That was early January. Well I got out and started walking every day, but then lapsed, so much so that at the beginning of February I was in a serious, despondent, winter funk. Again. So much has changed in the span of a few days! [...]

You know the coach bags, right? Very fashionable, very high-priced, very cha-cha. Ok I am so slow I did not know coach bags were an actual brand of purses! I thought ‘coach’ was slang for travel bags, like something you would take on a train. Coach, train, get it? LOL! I would see these bags [...]