Author: Angel Ackerman
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An Amazon.com story: The Good and Bad of Innovation
In her workshop to the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group last weekend, Laurel Olsen Wenson mentioned her favorite book, Farenheit 451, and added the caveat, “and I’m not a science fiction fan, but that book resonated with me.” We are living in the science fiction world that Ray Bradbury and…
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The 2023 Parisian Phoenix Gift Guide
Hello, all my feathered friends. If you’re in the United States, we had an early Thanksgiving this year. And this weekend is perhaps the most American long weekend one could possibly design— a celebration of gluttony and genocide on yesterday, rampant commercialism and greed on today, and by Monday we’re…
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This is the hill Kirk Cameron wishes to die on: Scholastic vs. Sky Tree
I don’t think there’s any one of us who does not know the Scholastic School Book Fair. I never realized until my adult life that Scholastic was a book publisher and I thought as a child that they merely loved book so much they gathered them up and brought them…
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Pregaming Thanksgiving
I worked really hard to build up my personal website, angelackerman.com, into a goofy blog, a place to highlight my foster cats and my professional portfolio. I know I have fans that enjoy my antics, and my goal–with this recent job loss– was to publish on Parisian Phoenix on Mondays,…
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Journals for ourselves and for our writing: A Day with Laurel Olsen Wenson
This month, Lehigh Valley author Laurel Olsen Wenson presented the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group with a program on various types of journaling and then turned that information into a workshop of using journaling, both in the text and behind the scenes, as a resource for character development. Types of…
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Power of People, Part 2
Lunch N Learn with Friends of Pete With the Office of DEI at Moravian University At the Lunch N Learn event, I had the privilege of weaving my way around my alma mater. I sat with some new and old friends, not sure who would wish to be outed on…
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Power of People, part 1
If I could only relay to you three lessons I learned in my print journalism career, they would be: Okay, so number three goes back to where I was a reporter, not craft, but there is nothing like the power of those three lessons. You can learn to write a…
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NaNoWriMo Uh-oh
For the last few weeks, Parisian Phoenix had so much happening that I had blog posts scheduled a week or two out. And, I suppose in reality, we STILL have enough going on that I could do that but things have grown hectic and my time is getting stretched thin.…
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Bird in Class: Parisian Phoenix teaches college journalism
Every once in a while, Gayle asked me to talked to her journalism students at Northampton Community College. Gayle is a graphic design professor, but the the basic graphic designs courses at the college include designers, artists and writers as multiple programs require the course as part of the curriculum.…
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