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During a recent interview for The Writer Magazine, short story writer, Antonya Nelson, also dubbed, “…master of domestic drama…” received the received the statement, “...your work focuses on family-centered problems. Sue Miller has said men used to light out for the territories, but that ‘home’ is the new frontier.” To the interviewer, Sarah Anne Johnson’s q […]

Teaching in the NYC Public Schools was not only gratifying but also meaningful. Working with students in grades one through six for the first part of my career. My Principal felt that I had a special talent and expertise when working with students in learning difficulties and encouraged me to get my second Master’s in Reading and Learning Disabilities. I am […]

•August 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment (Edit) Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Why Do I Write & What Is My Process –by Breena Clarke Breena at home in Jersey City with my bamboo plants When I’m asked to answer the queries — what is your process? — why do you write? I begin by saying that I come to writing as a reader. I believe it is important for me to […]

I recently read he 20th century Tibetan Buddhist master, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's commentary on Lama Mipham's The Wheel of Investigation and Meditation That Thoroughly Purifies Mental Activity. Khyentse Rinpoche writes in the commentary, "Instead of being convinced that there is a self-entity, we realize that self is a mere concept. […]

The summer has whisked by. One day it was May 31st and our middle was finishing what had been their eleventh grade year–they were a high school junior–and two days later we were listening to a message left by the school photographer stating that senior pictures would be made the following week and leaving the [...]

Love strengthens and transforms. It also frightens. Experiencing love, true unadulterated and unconditional love, freely given soothes us in places long hardened over time by insults and wounds inflicted in the flesh and to our character and emotions. Love and acceptance despite and because of who we are, faults, shortcomings, warts and all exhumes not only […]

So much of marriage is about seeing the other, your spouse, and allowing your true self to come through, i.e. being seen yourself. My novel, "The House," chronicles the experience of a woman, Anna Manning, during the last 3 months of her marriage wherein her husband, Edward, has withheld aspects of his true nature from. Throughout their nearly thir […]

Friday afternoon I felt as if I would crack. Each one of my children, ages, 11-years-old to 23 years needed me for emotional support as they struggled to attain their goals. My eldest was working hard on a paper search for a 15-page graduate research paper she must write. Our 11th grader needed guidance on how to organize her study and tutoring sessions for […]

I named my publishing company, NOJ Publications, after my husband, his named turned backwards. I write about love, committed and constant, persevering and sustaining, which he has given me. My stories and novels express what I know and have learned in relationship with my husband. Love holds a most transforming power. It dispenses hope beyond our wildest dre […]

I've been married for 28 years. I have 3 children. Though I haven't always felt this way, presently I wouldn't trade my life for anything. I like being married. I like being a mother. It's hard work both as a wife and as a mother. The challenges of motherhood are pretty generic. The ones I encounter as a wife have less to do with my husba […]