Amy Wilson Sheldon has worked as a magazine editor and writer, after-school director, and media educator. Currently living in Dublin, Ireland, she works as a freelance copyeditor and volunteers with F
At the beginning of 2014, British writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh sent out
some New Year’s cards fashioned like bookmarks. Although the intent of this
postal greeting—festooned with illustrations of women
“I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.” —
Roddy Doyle
Over the years, my family has developed its own code, its own unifying language.
We don’
In early October, on the eve of the first Presidential debate, the social
justice-focused Sojourners [http://www.sojo.net] presented a documentary it had
produced about poverty in America. The Line [http://http:
When I told my book club – an international group of women – that the “general
themes” of the book we were reading were universal, my thoughts were met with a
few raised eyebrows. It
At the creative writing center where I volunteer, we engage children in writing
fiction by presenting them with four basic tenets of a story: a main character,
a sidekick, the main character’s
