Opting In to Social Media (it’s not what you think)

Social Media Icons

I am still trying to wrap my head around social media, working to figure out the most comfortable combination, fit, level of involvement, boundaries. I use the word “comfortable” deliberately. For writers or anyone else for whom social media is part personal and part professional, the ever increasing social media options—from Twitter to LinkedIn, Goodreads …

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Writing Up an Appetite

Writing Up an Appetite

What’s better than writing and food and friends? How about all three together in one place? I’m tickled today to kick off a group blog with E. Victoria Flynn and Christi Craig called Writing Up an Appetite: Wisconsin Writers in the Kitchen, where we’ll take turns writing weekly posts (with occasional extra garnish as the …

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Happy July!

photo of fireworks

Everyone I talk to is asking the same question (perhaps because we had such a long period in Wisconsin of cool weather in late spring): Where did June go? I’m not sure, but July is starting off with a bang, even before the fireworks begin. First, next week two friends and I will be launching …

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