This Week's Writing Prompt: “Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. Little nails and a steady hammer can rebuild a life,” writes Ann Voskamp in One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. Discovering what gratitude looks like amid long, gritty, and sometimes dark…
This Week's Writing Prompt “That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind.” Just the right thing to say. With the whole world watching, Neil Armstrong needed to say something as he stepped onto the moon. Throughout the event, Walter Cronkite narrated the moon landing story, and people around the world tuned in by television or radio.…
This Week's Writing Prompt Every Fourth of July, we celebrate the birth of our country and all of its accompanying freedoms. We have many ways to experience and exercise our freedom. Writing is one. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, author of Some Luck, shared her reaction to a note in a friend’s office one day: "Over her desk, above her…
