Warning: Teaching memoir-writing is a gateway drug. I started leading a class 15 years ago. By 2011 I was leading two a week. In 2012, it grew to three. I’m up to five now. How do I keep up the habit? By taking breaks in-between the six-week sessions. I don’t edit or give writing prompts […]

If you follow the Safe & Sound blog, you probably recognize my sister Marilee’s name. She and her family have lived in Florida nearly 25 years now, but she made it up here for our annual Finke sisters weekend and is here with a guest post to tell you all about it. by Marilee Amodt […]

Ali Krage’s last guest post was Part One of her two-part series on how a blind couple (Ali and her boyfriend Joe) arrange and enjoy a hotel stay on their own. Here’s Part Two. by Alicia Krage I was up at 6 a.m. the day we’d be heading to the hotel. I’d gone to sleep […]

I’m heading off to beautiful Grand Haven, Michigan today for Sisters’ Weekend, and while I’m away my young friend Ali Krage is stepping in with a guest post. I met Ali 15 years ago at a “low-vision conference” in DuPage County. “I’m blind like you and I can read Braille and I go to the […]

I’m pleased to have Regan Burke back as a guest blogger today. She’s been a member of many of my classes over the years (Regan is featured in “Writing Out Loud”) and maintains her own blog, Backstory Essays, and she’s been published in The Christian Science Monitor and a variety of other publications. It’s the […]