If you haven’t signed up yet for Saturday, March 20th, all-day workshop in Hot Springs Village on writing from life for memoirs, family reunions, geneology, or profit, you still can.
We have 52, yes, that’s right, FIFTY-TWO PAID AS OF MONDAY! Come and join the fun. We will learn, read, write and generally share the writing [...]
Ever wanted to write down your family history, or your own story, or something that you want to share from your life with readers? Here’s a chance to spend a day learning, sharing, and writing about exactly that. Great for the family genealogist, family reunion memoirs, scrapbook makers, family photo archives,the memory writer, nonfiction writers, and anyone who ever thought about some that really happened.”I bet that would make a great article for…” Come and get started with my FAMILY FOLKLORE workshop.
Sometimes good news comes from the past. I’ve just discovered, 5 years after it’s first printing, that House Housekeeping included my grandmother Eva’s Coconut Cake Recipe in their 2004 edition. And it’s still available.
It’s that time of year again, movies I want to see, hope to see, will find a way to see.
As the final weeks of real summer, the weeks before Labor Day and everyone is expected to be back on the job, in his or her seat, and/or present and accounted for after three months of vacation time possibilities, I love this view of America presented by Maira Kaplan called:
Maira Kalman explains how everyone got [...]
One thing about my creativity. It seems to thrive on those moments when I have no time for it.
In today’s fiction my main character is certain to be female and forty plus, sometimes decades plus, yet she will still be a vital, smart, sensually attractive, HARD-WORKING fully-alive human being. Fiction has caught up with a Baby Boomer truth: Life doesn’t end at forty or fifty. It doesn’t even slow down.
n a Clinton School classroom in the Arkansas Studies Institute, a rapt group listened to the author (Laura Castoro) read steamy sex scenes from various romance novels and discuss why they were good.
Let’s Talk about SEX! Workshop by Laura Parker Castoro
What about SEX? How to get that LOVING FEELING on paper without scandalizing the cat?
Ways of weaving emotionally involving love scenes into an emotionally involving plot.
There are few recipes more personally intimidating to me than my mother’s mother’s Coconut Cake. I’ve made it twice now. Most recently last Sunday, for Easter. This cake is a true family treasure, the kind that inspires holiday traditions, family folklore inserts for geneaology projects, and short stories that get published. If Mom had never told me how important the cake was to her family at Christmas, I would never have been inspired to write it down.
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