Now, at the ripe old age of twenty-two, she is living in Korea for a year teaching English (before starting grad school). Her emails updating the whole extended family on her experiences are pure gold--the Korean family she drank many ...

Just waiting for the paperwork for the divorce to be final
Eighteen months on, one of the men who jumped into the river to help the Shi'ites says al-Obeidi "wasted his life for those animals." Hamza Muslawi refuses to talk about how many he himself saved, saying it fills him with shame. ...

salesmen
I was eighteen years old with nothing to my name but an Owl card, the precursor to the debit cards of today. The magazine salesman on the street flagged me down relentlessly on my way to a job interview. I needed the job to go to school ...

Love Your Characters (or The Unwritten Books: Where Do We Go From ...
You may not know that there are eight books in total, following the adventures of Meg Murry and Calvin O’Keefe from their first meeting as thirteen-year-olds, through to their eldest daughter Polyhymnia’s eighteen year birthday (a full ...

"Never sweat the chaos, for a black sheep has ways..."
Am now also a bona fide treehugger. Sensation = indescribable. If you've ever actually hugged a tree, you know what your heroine's talking about, and there's no need to explain. If you don't, your heroine couldn't possibly convey it ...