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Life Notes: Notes from an Urban Cabin # 19

By Laura Lynn Brown 12 Comments

Laura Lynn Brown writes about unexpected life in her urban cabin and a cat-and-mouse game. What happened to the peanut butter in the traps?

Filed Under: Blog, Life Notes

Life Notes: Superbuns!

By Callie Feyen 10 Comments

What happens when Callie Feyen goes shopping for bras? With a five-year-old? Only one word for it: Superbuns!

Filed Under: Blog, Life Notes, Videos

Life Notes: Dragon Scales to Go, to Stay

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Remember what it was like to be a harried mom in the shoe store? (Or was that just yesterday?) In this Life Notes edition, L.L. Barkat recalls all too well — with dragon scales as part of the deal.

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Life Notes: The Secret to a Happy Marriage Is Not What I Thought It Was

By Megan Willome 14 Comments

Wedding rings in hand, happy marriage

The secret to a happy marriage might have something to do with cartwheels. Or not. Find out the real deal in this humorous Life Notes, from Megan Willome.

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Life Notes: Figuring

By L.L. Barkat 14 Comments

Blond Doll Japanese Clothes

In this Life Notes edition, a little girl’s lament turns into an evening of make-believe. If you’re feeling stressed, you might want to walk away—and into play—too.

Filed Under: Blog, Life Notes, Writing Life

Life Notes: Greensleeves, Green Tea, and a Circlet

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

greensleeves clover

In this Life Notes edition, a child takes one writer’s morning in an unexpected direction—as children are wont to do.

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Life Notes: Tea is Necessary

By Ann Kroeker 18 Comments

Tree in Tea Comfort

With both hands wrapped around a steaming mug, Ann Kroeker recognizes that life needs pauses. And life needs tea.

Filed Under: Blog, Life Notes, Self Care, Tea

Life Notes: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Chickens

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

funny-chicken-chase-photo-david-goehring

When going on a great chicken chase, it might be useful to know these 10 things you didn’t know about chickens. Get the scoop from this amusing Life Notes edition!

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Life Notes: What’s Your Happiest Moment?

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

happiest-moment-fall-flowers

What’s your happiest moment? We reach into the past in this “Life Notes” edition, to a high-armed couch and a mountain, to try to answer the question.

Filed Under: Blog, L.L. Barkat, Life Notes

The Surprise Leap: Notes on the Writing Life

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Storm clouds over field of canola

As in the rest of life, the writing life is about more than beginning. Often times, what defines the work (and who we are) happens in the middles.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life

Poetry Prompt: Soundtrack of Your Life

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Author Callie Feyen invites us to write a poem about the soundtrack of our life and aim at universal themes. Just like on “The OC.”

Filed Under: Blog, Music, Music Poems, poetry prompt

Ask Pearl: Creepy Thank You Notes, Journal Creepers & Not-At-All-Creepy Cashmere Socks

By Pearl Jenkins 4 Comments

Ask Pearl girl playing with log

In her latest advice column, Dennison Gazette columnist Pearl Jenkins tackles thank you notes in the age of texting, journal snooping and buying yourself gifts at the holidays.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Ask Pearl, Blog

Poet Laura: Life is Like a Box of Chocolate Poems

By Tania Runyan 13 Comments

Life is Like a Box of Chocolate Poems

In this month’s column, inaugural Poet Laura Tania Runyan nibbles around the edges of the chocolate poem box and comes up with some thoughtful delights.

Filed Under: Blog, Chocolate Poems, Food Poems, Poet Laura

Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner: Maria A. Esguerra

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Poetry for Life scholarship - mountain landscape

We announce the winner of this year’s Poetry for Life Scholarship, Maria A. Esguerra.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poetry for Life

4 Smartphone-Free Tips to Help Sustain Your Writing Life

By Charity Singleton Craig 1 Comment

Smart phone use and writing

Charity Singleton Craig has tips to help you conquer your smart phone habits to take care of your writing and your brain.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

A Basket of Favorite Thank You Notes

By T.S. Poetry 6 Comments

bicycle basket

Each month, we slip a few poetic thank you notes to unlikely recipients: potatoes, evergreens, candles, ice. Looking over the past few months, here are just a few of our favorite thank you notes. Thank you for writing them! Or snapping a thankful picture.

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Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner: Teja Dupree, of Johns Hopkins University

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

Teja Dupree Johns Hopkins The Writing Seminars Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner

Meet Teja Dupree, college sophomore from Woodbridge, Virginia, who is the 2017 winner of our Poetry for Life Scholarship.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry for Life

“Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey” by Frances Wilson

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Dry ice and water Thomas De Quincey

“Guilty Thing: The Life of Thomas De Quincey” by Frances Wilson details the life of the writer who had, and still has, a major influence on literature.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Essays

Don Paterson: Poet of Light and Dark in Life and in Ourselves

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Tree reflection Don Paterson

Don Paterson is an important voice in British poetry and letters. He writes of both the light and the dark in life and in ourselves.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Britain, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry reviews, Poets, Scottish Poems, Scottish Poetry

Poetry for Life Scholarship Finalist: Dylan Mathews

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

Dylan Mathews Poetry for Life Scholarship Finalist

We’ve chosen our winner and finalists for the Poetry for Life Scholarship. Come meet one of the finalists and read one of the submitted poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry for Life

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