Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

 -Howard Thurman

Far, far away, in a distant galaxy, there is a planet where money just doesn’t matter. It doesn’t even exist. I’ve dreamed about it. This is a place where you do what you love. You live a very…

Most website owners who are willing to bring more traffic to their site come across a popular term known as Article Marketing. This term has gone through many eyes but only few have understood the real meaning of this term. Many marketers and website owners agree with the benefits of this term while many put their points against this term. The fact is only those website owners and marketers do not agree with the benefits of this term that are not aware of the complete meaning of it and how…

So small - to cause such big problems . . .

Dad was running an errand.

For his mother.

It was 1937 and the family had just recently moved to Lethbridge from Glenwood, Alberta.

He enjoyed the independence of being able to walk the few blocks…

Why is it we all seem to struggle so?  Why so much dissatisfaction? We never seem quite satisfied with who we are, with what life brings, with where we are in ourselves.  It’s almost as if, were we satisfied, we fear there’d be no more reason for us to live; as if the Creator might descend on some big burst of light and pluck us straight away:



“This one’s done! Beam him up, Scotty.”



I’ve had that bizarre fear myself, the fear that if I allow myself to feel satisfied, happy…

(picture, courtesy of VABook Fest)

Greetings Shewriters - Get out your highlighters for some sound advice!

Bella Stander is the proprietor of Book Promotion 101 and publisher of Bella Terra Publishing. For the past dozen years she’s worked with the Virginia Festival of the Book, where she…

Hi Writers - I will be your guest editor of the week.  I am not even sure this is the right place to post, but here goes.         

   Many of my favorite pieces of advice come from lists of "what not to do" and how to avoid "rookie" mistakes at all costs.  One of my favorite books that illustrates this principal is The Forest For the Trees by editor Betsy Lerner.  In it, she glides between descriptions of how the…

When Rahna Reiko Rizzuto invited me to submit a guest post for She Writes, I remembered, as I often do, a day Reiko and I once shared in Manhattan.  A long walk.  The rocks of Central Park.  A story she was telling about the Hudson River.  Turtles.  I remembered that day, and then I remembered all the years…

First comes pregnancy, then comes cravings…I figured the only question was: In the 2036 society where teen Surrogettes “bump” for infertile “obsolescents” (everyone over 18), what kinds of food will all those pregnant girls be craving?...more:

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So after I finished…

I won’t lie – the reason I picked up this book was because my knowledge of Scottish cuisine is limited to haggis. And by knowledge, I mean I’ve heard the word, not that I know what it is. So I was expecting the story’s heroine, Sami Ames, to take me along on her trip to…

I love that with everything high-school junior Kaylee Cavanaugh has going on, the girl still makes time to eat. It seemed like food found its way into practically every scene from pretzels and cheese fries at the movie theater where she works, to turkey and Italian subs with Nash…