From the offices of Melissa M. Monroe, Ph.D., L.Ac, news and tips for maintaining your healthโ body, mind, and soul.
Doctor of acupuncture. Parent of Grace and Alice. Writer of words. Teacher of Pilates and yoga. Cooker of meals. Hiker of dusty trails. Dancer of dances. Researcher of science, religion and the esoteric. Watcher of baseball. Lover of Chris.
PARTake, by watercolorist and salmon cookbook author Maureen C. Berry, offers art, poetry, and essays on the third Sunday of each month.
I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.
Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.
Curating fee-free (AND paying/funded) calls and competitionsโplus other resourcesโfor writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy and embracing the in-between. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, was published by Motina Books in February 2025.