Some details on my Heart to Page course: WHAT YOU GET:  Monthly 90 minute workshops You’ll learn and apply concepts and techniques of Creative Nonfiction that will help you write — and share — your story These sessions will be live and recorded 45 minute one-on-one session with Callie monthly Discuss your writing Receive individualized instruction and written feedback Monthly… View Post

Once upon a time, you finished reading a book that opened up a door and expanded your world, and you closed the cover and said, “I want to do that. I want to try that.” Once upon a time, you scribbled notes in the margins of another book – ideas for stories, reflections, questions. You twirled your pen and wondered… View Post

I had a friend at Calvin “Is God just or fair?” he liked to ask, marking the beginning of a debate and since we’d all taken Philosophy and Religion 101, we were up to the task a bunch of 20 year olds sure we knew what God was My friend would ask our parents too, and over chicken sandwiches and… View Post

From Marjorie Maddox’s book, True, False, None of the Above: “To All The Struggling Women Poets” jostling pen and junior,computer and comp classes, lover and love of words – step in with both feet dripping with wrung-out dreams; get your graying hair wet and wet again. It will not get better. It will not get easy to feed the few… View Post

Jesse and I rode our bikes to “Top of the Park,” a series of summer concerts put on every year in the great town of Ann Arbor. We heard the bluegrass band, “The RFD Boys,” play. We love this band, and lucky for us, they’re in town so we see them a lot. Some of us play golf with some… View Post