by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 11, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Where I live in California, we definitely have spring in full bloom all up in here. My yard looks like purple flowers exploded all over it, and my little fig tree has defied the odds...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 8, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rule the world Every once in a while, I get a reminder of the power of words. Lately they’ve been as easy to find as a certain chain coffeeshop. They’ve been slipped under my door: my alderman’s up for re-election...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 7, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Balancing work/life writing I write for a living. It isn’t the kind of writing I would like to do—it isn’t terribly creative or exciting, though I try to inject life into dull topics. I am a grants writer. For the last...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 5, 2016 | friends of yeah write, YeahWrite
Let’s get in the wayback machine Lately I’ve been reminiscing about this time last year. Then, we were planning our trip to Long Beach Comic Con, the first major appearance of yeah write outside of the Internet. By August, when we announced here that...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 4, 2016 | moonshine, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open It’s Employee Appreciation Day in the U.S. This morning I was greeted at work by smiling and shiny cakes, danishes and cookies with a nice little note from my boss that said that...
by YeahWrite Editor | Mar 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Burn out or fade away? I have vacation on the brain. All I can think about is my own private wilderness with plenty of snacks and no work to think of. Naps, too–plenty of naps. I am overworked and overtired and I just. Need....