Life Balance
Evasive life balance might be easier to write about than achieve. Should you care?
Continue reading →Cynthia Kraack
Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction and nonfiction including The High Cost of Flowers, winner Midwest Book Award, and 40 Thieves on Saipan.
Two Priests, A Pregnant Woman and a Guy with a Big Hat
The eye of a writer finds exceptions to normality almost everywhere. It could have been a good joke. Did you hear the one about two priests, a pregnant woman and a guy in big hat?
Continue reading →Second Child Syndrome
Makes a second child kind of puff up their chest and look somewhere else for the limelight. Maybe become a writer.
Continue reading →Celebrate a New Writing Center
We invite you to experience a place where you can bury yourself in the quiet of the woods, the lapping shores of a Great Lake, or join in a lively arts community.
Continue reading →Life According to Facebook
A former classmate avoids the MFA program reunion. Her writing career isn’t developing like life according to Facebook. In the five years since graduating, others have published, found full-time academic positions, received recognition. Her achievements, while quite nice, feel small. … Continue reading →
America’s Kids
Kids are everywhere on the Fourth of July 2013 in the Village of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. Babies hang in pouches on their parents’ chests, strollers and wagons dot the crowd, the majority walk on their own or run. Some multiplier … Continue reading →
The Kroner Transfer
Amsterdam is a large airport, busy even at six thirty Sunday morning. Like many European airports it has transfer centers where passengers can check on their next flight or make changes to their reservations. It’s a good idea that would … Continue reading →
Of Puppies and Revisions
Rocky recently joined our household. He is a fur ball of energy. We’ve laughed over his insane play, grown tired of his sharp teeth testing toes, rewarded outside pooping, and begun teaching the many lessons a puppy needs to co-exist … Continue reading →
Music and Writing
Some nights, silence is the best music as words become sentences and paragraphs fill the page. Some nights the womanly voices of Adele or Bonnie Raitt lure creativity onto a blank page then another and another. Or maybe lost in the … Continue reading →
Winter Weight
Attending literary events lately has led me to the non-scientific observation that writers in this part of the Midwest might eat too many calories per hour while sitting at their computers during extended cold weather. Pictures from a June book … Continue reading →