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The Breakfast Club (with author Laurel Wenson at Plants & Coffee) and Readers in the Wild
I’m behind on things– perhaps my own fault because I got distracted at my local public library yesterday and perhaps gave myself some time to read when I should have been writing. One of my goals for this year is to read more current fiction and to read popular fiction.…
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Girls’ Night Out at Boser Geist
Last week I got a message from fine artist and art book maker Maryann Riker of Justarip Press. She and I have known each other at least 20 years through my newspaper days in Phillpsburg, N.J. I heard about her art books and asked if I could do a piece…
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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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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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Disability Poetics
Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…
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Writing Books that Inspire Us
Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…
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Looking for a few good wardrobe pieces
Imagine a closet full of the latest and greatest clothing styles with every style and thousands of choices. That’s what it’s like to stand in a Stitch Fix “Hizzy” or warehouse. Angel Ackerman, as a Stitch Fix client and employee, uses the subscription clothing service to find wardrobe needs for…
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The trials and tribulations of an art director: searching for the perfect photo
Shortly before Memorial Day a book I designed went to press—Coffee In The Morning by Larry Sceurman. It’s a book of short stories with a photo … searching for the perfect photo