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Ruth W. Crocker's essays and other nonfiction writing have been recognised in Best American Essays and as a finalist for the Literary Awards Program of the Santa Fe Writers Project. She is the author of several magazine and journal articles that have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Grace Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, T.A.P.S. Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. An excerpt from her memoir, Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014. She is available for workshops, readings and public speaking. ...more

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Mental Clutter: Organizing the mind for writing

Perhaps it’s the winter season and my mind and body think I should be hibernating. Why else do I have the sense that I can’t get myself organized to write an essay? The ideas are there, piling up like laundry ready to be sorted and folded and put somewhere. They fly around in my head, meteors intent to land and make a big splash, promising to be the beginning of an interesting adventure on the pag Read more of this blog post »

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