Our youngest, Daughter #4, who grew up to be the wonderful writer Sara Marian, and I lerrrrrrvvvv writing exercises! Whenever we’ve done a two-person mini-retreat or have roomed together at a writing workshop, we’ve done exercises. More often than not, we’ve ended up with stories,…

#4 Daughter and fellow-author, Sara Marian, and I love doing writing exercises. Back when we had time, we would schedule an entire weekend together for a mini-retreat, and do one exercise after another. We ended up with some pretty good stuff from them. One of…

Mrs. Malthus, like most of her students, stole looks at the clock. She wished she could join the happy few who were unobtrusively – and, some, obviously – sleeping. Don Pardo’s snoring was the only thing keeping her brain from shutting down entirely.