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Rat-a-tat-tat by E. Victoria Flynn

(Find Victoria at http://www.pennyjars.blogspot.com/ and
http://www.mamasxinitiative.blogspot.com/)

A regular man ordered a regular coffee. He watched my arm as I collected his money and returned the change. "I've always wanted a tattoo," he said. I flushed, my arm band was talking again. I asked why he hadn't gotten one. "I've always thought a person's body is like a map," he said. " All its scars, and marks, and tattoos show where you've been. I haven't found the right one yet."

I think about ...

Literary Soul Stuck in a Box: Lisa Lickel

Lisa Lickel and her husband live in eastern Wisconsin in a 150-year-old Great Lakes ship captain's house filled with books and dragons. She writes mysteries and romances, but alas, not literature. Her latest novel, Meander Scar, is set near Madison, Wisconsin. She also writes for FreeQuincy Radio Theater, and local newspaper feature articles. Her website is: http://lisalickel.com; she's a regular at http://wisconsinauthorreview.blogspot.com, http://favoritepastimes.blogspot.com and at

The Spaces in Between by Rose Deniz

The Spaces in Between: Creative Fodder in Daily Life
by Rose Deniz (Find Rose at http://rosedeniz.blogspot.com)

Creativity happens between the pages of a notebook, or when a brush of paint touches the canvas, right? As a guest speaker on the topic of cultivating a creative life to expat women, I've had businesswomen, stay at home moms, lawyers and teachers all agree with that idea. It's hard to break down one's ingrained notions of what is creative and what is not.

So what do most people conside...

Again by Robin Antalek

Robin Antalek is the author of The Summer We Fell Apart (HarperCollins 2010), chosen as a Target Breakout Book.  Visit her website at www.robinantalek.com.
She also blogs at www.robinantalek.blogspot.com and thenervousbreakdown.com. You can find her on Facebook, too.

Again
By Robin Antalek

I thought it would be easy.  Well, perhaps easy is the wrong choice of words.  Maybe a different kind of easy. After all I managed to get a book published.  Pretty awesome reviews.  Target Breakout Book.  Book...

Charlotte Holmes on Virginia Woolf

Please help me in welcoming the wonderful, talented, supportive (yes, I was lucky: she was my former Fiction Professor!) Charlotte Holmes. Charlotte has had stories in many literary journals, among them the New Yorker, Epoch, and New Letters. She has a story collection out, too: Gifts and Other Stories, available everywhere. Charlotte teaches creative writing at Penn State University in State College. I am greatly indebted to this amazing woman because she taught me everything I know about...

Guest Blog From Terri Kirby Erickson

Terri Kirby Erickson is the award-winning author of two collections of poetry, Thread Count (2006), and Telling Tales of Dusk (2009).  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many literary journals, anthologies and other publications, including The Blue Fifth Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Eclectica, JAMA, Verse Daily, and many others, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net award.  For more information about her poetry and where to find it, pleas...

The Bird Sisters

This is not to overshadow my guestblogger Nancy, but I couldn't not tell all of you this: The Bird Sisters is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Of course I love my local bookstore and so do you I'm sure, but oh how neat it is to see the book up and running. I have an author page, too...

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Sisters-Novel-Rebecca-Rasmussen/dp/0307717968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280439768&sr=8-1

The Lemonade Stand: A Guest Blog by Nancy Hinchliff

Nancy Hinchliff is the Innkeeper of the Aleksander House. After teaching in Chicago's inner-city highschools for twenty years, she returned to the university to work on her PH.D. in Education in 1995, where she taught Highschool Teaching Methods and Curriculum and Instruction. Upon retirement, she moved to Louisville and bought a lovely 1882 Victorian home in historical "Old Louisville".  Nancy writes primarily journalistic pieces, creative non-fiction, and poetry.  She has four blogs, so...

Guest Blog from writer Siobhan Fallon

I am thrilled to have Siobhan Fallon here today guestblogging on The Bird Sisters. Siobhan is an enormously talented writer. Her story collection You Know When the Men are Gone will be debuting next January 2011 from Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin. Siobhan's work has appeared in Poets & Writers, New Letters Magazine, among many, many others. She has won more writing contests than I can keep track of. Aside from being a FANTASTIC writer, Siobhan is a fantastic person. I am blessed to know her (and ...

A Guest Blog From Ultra-Runner Myra Tejada

Ever wonder what it's like to run fifty miles? Below, athlete and writer extraordinaire Myra Tejada talks about her journey to the 50 mile ultra marathon at Devil's Lake in Southern Wisconsin and the journey itself. Her story is quite inspiring! Better than Runner's World inspiring. Enjoy! Also, feel free to leave comments for her and I will see that she gets them. xox Rebecca

By Myra Tejada

One question I repeatedly heard leading up to the race is "Are you crazy? Why 50 miles?  Isn't a maratho...