Pounding Heart
I wonder at the symbolism. So many ways to interpret this image! If the keys are car keys (which is what I saw) I wonder at the accident that might have caused this bleeding.
4 Acronyms to Challenge Our Thinking
Photo by Pixabay on aPexels.com 4 Acronyms to Challenge Our Thinking and Prevent Absorption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) WIIFM — What’s In It For Me? WIIFU — What’s In It For Us? WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get WYSIATI — What You See Is All There Is A thought piece by Kathryn Atkins […]
Book Launch January 28, 2018
Giving My Self to the Wind I had so much fun. The top left photo is of my husband Don and my son Ted with me at the Gatsby Books signing. Next on the left, friends Tim and Nancy Thomas, and then my brother Bob and me. The threesome at the bottom are my […]
The Challenge and Joy of Finishing
Mozart. Bach. Van Gogh. Rodin. Margaret Mitchell. Stephen King. Stephen Spielberg. George Lucas. Have you heard of these folks? They all finished something. Did they know they were done? Probably, they just got tired of messing with whatever they were working on, put a period, an ending, a final splotch of paint or marble or […]
Neverland
Penelope Peters did not want to grow up. She wore pigtails even as she entered college, an all-girls establishment. After she graduated she sailed to a faraway island where she took care of the Lost Girls. One day, the evil Madam Hook kidnapped some of the girls and took them to her place of business, […]
Published!
This is my book. I wrote it because I had to put my self out. Be out. These are pieces of me (they’re always called pieces, whether a piece of music, art, or writing) that assure me I was here. I never thought of that before, but it’s true. Creatives leave these little breadcrumbs like Hansel […]
WRITING Is Not Easy
We are inundated with content all day long. We are buried in promotions. Suffocating from inbound. Struggling to create outbound. So because writing is all around us, it seems that it is an easy thing to do. But it’s not. WRITING is not easy. Good writing is really, really hard. People write emails all day long. […]
Results
You’ve hired a writer. Congratulations! I’m thrilled. You’re excited because your work is done. But wait. We have to talk about that. As I view the content landscape, I am convinced that people hire content writers expecting magic—as in seeing instant results and an immediate increase in business. It would be lovely, a writer’s wish, a […]