Category: reflection
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While in Yemen…
If you saw my post yesterday, I talked about my travels in Tunisia, Yemen and Somalia. In Yemen, I had tea at one of the “coffee houses” in the suq. I originally lingered outside because women in Yemen do not frequent the same social spaces as men, but as a traveler/guest, I was invited…
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Why I don’t share my opinions on some topics
As a journalist, I learned to observe. I learned to listen and treat different people with different opinions the same and then evaluate what they told me via more sources and research. What I thought, what I felt, nobody cares about that. A journalist— a good journalist— seeks “truth” and serves…
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Year of the Sandwich
New Year. Plotting goals. Absorbing information and moving forward. I have proclaimed 2025 “THE YEAR OF THE SANDWICH.” Maybe I’m just hungry. But as I discussed in my goal setting for writers workshop this week, a sandwich offers a pretty good mental image of individual goal setting. We choose the…
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Inspiration at Your Fingertips
There is so much inspiration available on the Substack platform. On the same day of my last newsletter, Amy Suto sent out a newsletter offering a list of ways you could earn $100,000 as a writer in 2025, see that list here. And somehow I ended up perusing Austin Kleon’s posts about notebooks, taste some of…
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My five-star reads of 2024
This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.
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My house is haunted… by the pages of printing past
I got an email last week from someone who borrowed my novelette Not the Quiet French Kid in ebook format from her local library. She took the time to contact me and told me that her grandfather once lived in my house. I purchased my house with my husband twenty years ago…
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Lessons from George Carlin
After two weeks of my daughter’s struggle with a double ear infection, vertigo and laryngitis— probably brought on by a mix of swinging weather between spring and deep winter & attending a late semester college frat party— I suddenly find myself drowning in phlegm with a cough. The doctor sees…
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10 Little Rules
November proved to be hectic here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing, so I should not have been surprised when I received a phone call from author Larry Sceurman. He had opened his box of bookmarks for his new children’s book, Bookworm’s Magical Journey, and the box contained bookmarks for Kathleen Goggin‘s…
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