Story Prompt: Favorite Toy or Possession
A description of a favorite toy or possession can tell a deeper story, whether it was your own or someone else’s. My mind immediately goes back to those 5” x 5” black and white photos of the sixties. If my sister had had her way, “Chatty Cathy” would’ve accompanied...
A Genealogy Problem: Accessible Records of Enslaved Individuals
Descendants of enslaved people have a lot harder time digging out the stories of their ancestors. Considered “property,” these ancestors weren’t afforded the dignity of having their names and birth dates recorded on census records, county marriage records, and the...
In Lieu of Flowers
It’s a pleasure to have John Kingston guest post and share his moving tribute to his mom. It remains one of my earliest memories of childhood: my brother’s 7th birthday party in the backyard of our house on Stevenson Street; Flint, Michigan, 1976. While my...
Writing about the Fulcrums in our Lives
We all people, events, and situations in our lives, who (or which) determine the teeter of our life’s teeter-tooter. Writing about the fulcrums in our lives provides a unique glimpse into our circumstances and relationships with and affections for each other. Who...
Story Prompt: “Roads Not Taken”
Do the proverbial “Roads not Taken” really make all the difference? They could for your stories. In her “PLEASE Stop Misinterpreting “The Road Not Taken,” Susan Baroncini-Moe makes a compelling argument that Robert Frost’s poem is about looking back at...
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