i just can’t get enough of this author

I first stumbled across author Megan Stielstra at Wordstock in downtown Portland last November. I'd never heard of her before, but I was interested in the topic for that session -- an authors' panel about memoir and writing the intensely personal -- and I fell in love with a piece she read aloud about waiting for...

i always ♥ me some Harry Potter

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect." J.K. Rowling – From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (and technically from the movie, not the book)

Someone in my writing group recently gifted me with this. I both love it and want to protest. 😉

the story I insisted I wasn’t writing

Four and a half weeks ago on a whim, I signed up for an 8-week writing workshop -- a memoir bootcamp -- held at a literary nonprofit in downtown Portland. Sucked in by a Facebook sponsored ad on a Friday morning before work and stir-crazy from over a week of rare wintry snowy weather, I...