by Minerva Rising Contributor | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Your recent prompt for blog entries about art struck me for the number of ways it matched my thought process while writing my poem, “Perspectives.” When my daughter, Kailey, sent me this yoga selfie, I was transfixed by the difficulty of any person finding the point...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Being a dog owner has proved to be one of the most challenging, but extraordinary experiences of my life. When I was lodged in the mud of a toxic relationship, I decided to get a puppy. Ruckus (his all-too-fitting name) became my very best friend in a way that other...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 18, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
In a few weeks, my husband, daughter and I will move out of the yellow house across from the public library, a house that has been in his family for 75 years. Daisy, now 18, was 2 years old when she nestled into the same bedroom in which her grandmother spent her...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
In the dark night of my habits, when sleep avoids me like a troublesome child, I find my life has become a series of other people’s requests, demands, interests and needs. Surely, it’s my fault, all mine, to have put myself on the lowest shelf, deep behind the...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
Image: Kurt Vonnegut is one of the many writers from Indiana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_from_Indiana Writing retreats can be expensive and difficult to schedule. How can busy parent-writers arrange to attend a reasonably priced writing retreat when...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
A long, long time ago, when I was in my 20s, in grad school, and then living in Paris, I tried for a while to publish my short stories, poems, essays and one academic paper on the grotesque that my professor thought worthy. (I gave up on the research paper after five...
