by YeahWrite Editor | Apr 23, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Migration Spring is in the air, and change is coming. The hummingbirds will arrive back in Massachusetts shortly, followed by the orioles. I’ll be putting out feeders for both, bird nerd that I am. Change can be hard, but it also often signals a rebirth, small...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Too much My job is precarious, like much of the world today. I get assignments to teach classes based on student enrollment numbers. This semester, the numbers were just not on my side, and I joined many others in the unemployment lines. Without classes to teach, I...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
One is the loneliest number This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about community and how to get more involved with local (to me) writing groups. Writing can be a woefully lonely business, or at least a woefully alone business. It can feel like you’re...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are you ready? I sure am. Ready for it to be anything but winter, that is. If you’ve been reading YeahWrite’s weekly posts for long, you may know that I walk my dogs in the woods near my house every morning. I’m so tired of the scarf-coat-hat-gloves...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Click click click click I am not really a New Year’s resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It’s Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It’s the middle of Summer, there’s a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky’s a deeply worrying shade of...
