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Talking Hearts Cards
Talking Hearts couple's edition cards prompts: What's the best compliment you've ever received from a stranger? How do you want to celebrate your next personal milestone?
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
Me And My Poetry
Introduction Nearly all of my poetry these days seems to be villanelles or sonnets, and I like them because they make me feel safe when I am writing, that is, I know what I am doing is correct.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 months ago in Writers
The end of a relationship isn’t always the end of the attachment. Top Story - August 2026.
Yesterday, during one of my weekly healing groups, a woman asked me why, after almost four years, her ex is still in her head every single day.
By Annam M Gordon2 months ago in Writers
every third thought. Top Story - August 2026.
Lear’s torments are central to us, almost all of us, since the sorrows of generational strife are necessarily universal. Lear is many things in this play: tyrant, fool, madman, grief stricken father. In the beginning he strides upon the stage like a god and by the end he is reduced to penury and fear for his life and for the life of the only daughter who truly loves him.
By John Cox2 months ago in Writers
In a Pickle?. Top Story - July 2026.
The post below has, of this writing, 23.9 thousand views. Amazingly; no one dinged me for typing 'Nit' instead of 'Not'. That is a small thing to be thankful for, but I'll take it, especially as most of the comments questioned my sanity, my cooking, and my birthplace.
By Judey Kalchik 2 months ago in Writers
The Art of Writing on Vocal
A couple of days ago, I was talking with a friend about art, which is a subject I don't discuss much these days. It just doesn't come up in conversations with the family and Pam and I don't socialize much since our artist's group stopped getting together. I'm still a member of a Panhandle photographers' group, but we don't go to meetings anymore. There was some bad blood. I'll just leave it at that.
By Dana Crandell2 months ago in Writers
Coffee Confidence
This morning I brewed a coffee so strong it could wake the dead. For one glorious, caffeine fueled minute, I was unstoppable.
By Annam M Gordon2 months ago in Writers
More Than Tired
Have you ever woken up and felt tired before your feet even hit the floor? I’m not talking about the kind of tired that a cup of coffee fixes.
By Annam M Gordon3 months ago in Writers
Walking on Eggshells
You grow up believing family comes first, but home always feels like you’re walking on eggshells. They call themselves your biggest supporters, but even the smallest things you trusted them with end up coming back in the next argument.
By Annam M Gordon3 months ago in Writers
You Leave the Conversation Your Mind Doesn’t
You know what happens when you stop caring so much about what people think? Nothing, at first. It doesn’t disappear overnight and you still catch yourself doing it because you’ve been doing it for so long.
By Annam M Gordon3 months ago in Writers
Talking Hearts
Talking Hearts couple's edition cards prompts: In what areas do you consider yourself high vs. low maintenance in our relationship? If you could get one more season from a show that ended, what show would it be?
By Denise E Lindquist3 months ago in Writers
Soft Is Not the Opposite of Strong
We got the metaphor backwards somewhere. Somewhere along the way, we decided that pain was supposed to make us hard. That the goal, after everything, was to become someone who couldn't be touched the same way twice. Armor as achievement. Numbness mistaken for mastery. We started treating the callus as the whole point of the wound.
By Aarsh Malik3 months ago in Writers