What: Freelance journalism and creative non-fiction Why: I worked in the corporate world for over 20 years but never felt I was in the right field. It didn’t help that Oprah and her ilk were always saying things such as, “Live your best life now.” But there I was, stuck in a job that felt MEH…though in hindsight I developed many great work skills, said Pam, from the sunnier side of the … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Cathryn Cofell
What: I’m a businesswoman trapped inside a poet. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. I’m a poet trapped inside a businesswoman. Or is it the other way around? Simply trapped. I’m two women in one body. Think Freaky Friday but only one brain. What poets might call a C-lister. Author of one full-length collection, Sister Satellite, and six chapbooks of poetry. Well known in my home state of … [Read more...]
Not Everyone Appreciates the Arts: Defunding the NEA
Someone on Twitter tried to shame me for supporting the arts. On the day of the inauguration, NBC News tweeted "Got something important to say to President Donald Trump? Tweet your expectations to @NBCNews with #DearMrPresident." So I wrote about the National Endowment for the Arts: $700 billion and 5 million jobs is nothing to sneeze at, and this is a president who is supposed to be all … [Read more...]
Did you know these emotions actually have names?
Have you ever felt monachopsis? I have! I bet you have, too. This list of unique, strange and unsettling, but common emotions was compiled by Tickld, via the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. They seem oddly fitting for the dead of winter. 1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. 2. Opia: The intensity of looking someone in the eye, … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Sue Barnard
What: If you include those compulsory “Composition” exercises at school, I suppose I’ve been dabbling with writing for as long as I can remember: short stories, poems, articles, and the occasional stroppy letter to The Times. But it was around ten years ago, following a life-changing event which could easily fill an entire book on its own, that I began to take my writing more seriously. That was … [Read more...]
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