The prompt chosen this month from our Laurette Winner your humble host;rcallaciis“Message in a Bottle.” I broke the bottle and read the message, It was my divorce papers. This is Anonymous Month (please remember to PM rcallaci rather than post your poem on the board) ...
Using their own people as the foot soldiers. The yakuza, a term broadly used to cover the 24 designated organized crime groups legally operating in Japan, have seen their numbers plummet in the last decade. While there were 80,000 yakuza in 2011, the number of active members is now below...
Until you become one. And realize how much help you need just to stay alive, how much assistance you require to contribute financially to your family – and how parsimonious such help is, and how reluctant so many of your fellow citizens are to give it to you. At 74, I’m not LETTING...
Client Problem:My sons have become so difficult to manage after my divorce. What should I do to get order back in my house? Blog Post: How to Effectively Support Your Son’s Growth and Development as a Single Mom Client Problem:My daughter and I were so close when she was in elementary...
birth name of spouse, education, work, and military service. An obituary is not a legal document, so if in your heart you feel that a step parent should be listed as a parent, that a divorce need not be mentioned, or that some experience should be omitted, follow your best judgment. ...
If I’m honest, part of my inability to write is lack of outside stimulation. When you don’t go outside except once a week to the grocery, your life becomes insular and small. I get pretty tired of my own company. (Which, if you think about it, would be a GREAT reason to writ...
Some subjects play better than others. You don't want to parrot back the reader's own words, but neither do you want to deliberately antagonize your reader. I'm always astonished at the number of times I explain, “I'm fed up toherewith papers on gun control, euthanasia, and the death...
Neighboursdebuts in the UK and Dirty Den hands Angie Watts divorce papers on Christmas Day. On campus, there is a sea of double denim, dungarees and Doc Martens. Snakebites are served across the nine university bars (88p a pint). Everybody smokes and hardly anyone does drugs. (We’ve ...
Friends compared my love dying to a break-up or divorce You compared losing my love to losing a pet Many people told me it would make me a better person In the long run… stronger, more sensitive, more able When my world was disintegrating at the seams Many well-meaning people told me...
5. Romance, love or a bad divorce? Love makes for great stories; even ill-fated relationships can be superb jumping-off points. ThinkThe Fault in Our Stars, The Way We Were,andAnna Karenina. 6. Mix it up. Writers tend to be introverted; however, you’d be surprised that a random ...