Author: Angel Ackerman
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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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My meeting with Kafka the Great
I have lived and worked in the Easton area for the last 25+ years. Between that and the fact that my only child will turn 20 in 2024 reminds me almost daily of how old I am getting. One of the people I met in my early days of Easton…
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