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What women want when speaking about sexual assault

October 20, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

  Nearly every woman I know has told me about one or more times in which she was sexually assaulted, molested, threatened or raped, or they personally know someone who was sexually … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal Tagged With: rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, take back the night, trump

Meeting Readers at Books By the Banks

October 17, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. -- Ursula K. Le … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal, Publicity & Marketing Tagged With: book festival, books by the banks, bullying, family, Fiction, readers

What a writers’ retreat can do

October 10, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

  At the Springfed Arts' First Annual Lost Lake Writers' Retreat, poet Jack Ridl helped me realize I'm wasting my time when I procrastinate when I could be writing. He shook his head and … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal, Writing Tagged With: conference, Lost Lake Lodge, Springfed Arts, writers retreat

Birthdays After You Lose a Child

September 29, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

I vividly remember the moment Derek was born. The doctor laid him across my chest and there he was, my first baby -- his round face like a pale moon, his eyes open and unblinking, his little body warm … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Grief and Loss, It's Personal Tagged With: birthdays, children, death, family, grief, loss, suicide

Brief History of a Forty-Year Long Marriage

August 15, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

The Luv Pub It sounds like a cliche: I met my husband after last call in the Brown Derby Luv Pub in Independence, OH, where people danced on a lighted disco floor to a live "house band." There might … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal Tagged With: family, marriage, wedding anniversary

Lawn Kitsch

July 25, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

My Neighborhood I spotted this donkey, deer family, lighthouse, gazing ball, and Dutch children in one front yard in a section of houses built in the fifties. The children are supposed to be … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal Tagged With: family, kitsch, lawn ornaments, small town

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a children's picture book, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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