@LucindaSMcDowel Summertime and the season for….. writers conferences, book conventions and intense writing sojourns! I have discovered that each time I return to an annual event, it is helpful to use it as an intentional time of evaluation and focus. Some of us have just finished up a fabulous time…

@LucindaSMcDowel I think about words a lot. Because I’m an author and speaker, you might say words are my business – thus no surprise my ministry is called “Encouraging Words.” But this week there are at least three good reasons I’m thinking especially about Words: I’ve just sent the edits…

@BisbanoWrites I guess I’m not going to the conference, I said to myself. I was convinced you wanted me to go, Lord. I began to close my laptop—BING. In 2015 I asked God to allow me to go to the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference. It would be my first…

@JennyLCote Last time I asked you to examine why you write. If you’ve settled that, then the answer to this question may come easier. But that doesn’t make it any less depressing of a scenario. Aren’t we passionate about writing so people will read, enjoy, be inspired, educated, transformed or simply…

@LucindaSMcDowel Katherine was a human computer. A black woman in the mid-century America NASA space program. Among other responsibilities, she calculated the trajectories for both the Mercury and Apollo missions. But no one knew about her work. Until the recent book and movie “Hidden Figures”revealed the true story of the…

@RhondaRhea I was trying to get the last chocolate chip at the bottom of the smoothie with a straw—and who knew I could beatbox? So I figure my only course now is to write a rap. What possible other choice do I have? I’ve been sitting here for 20 minutes…