A colleague emailed my English department this summer informing us about an Illinois Writing Project program that teamed with the Chicago Sun Times to give teachers a platform and address an issue that he or she felt was problematic within the public education system.   After reading this, I felt compelled to take advantage of…

So, every good story has to have the beginnings of a relationship, right? In the following scene from my novel, The Glimpse Gift, Hope’s life takes another slight turn; this turn makes her almost run off the road.  This is the last of a series of three excerpts I’m sharing.  Looking forward to publishing it…

Long before the scandalous nipplegate malfunction in 2003 and her secret marriage announcement in 2013, Janet Jackson once confidently declared her independence when she sang the lyrics “Control-to get what I want. Control-I’m never gonna stop.  Control-Now I’m all grown up” in 1986.  Like most middle school, pre-pubescent girls during this era, I saluted Janet,…

Sometimes we’re drawn to things without explanation. We sense an urgency to be close to something or someone. For me, I can’t resist my adoration for the one and only Fox Mulder, the handsome special agent character from The X Files. My magnetic energy towards this fictional hero occurs for some obvious reasons, the actor,…