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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 […]

Our youngest daughter and I play cello duets. While neither of us is Yo-Yo Ma, I have experience powerful healing in this shared experience with our fifteen year old daughter. Never mind she plays much better than I, her

Our middle daughter who is twenty-one, has no shame in asking for hugs. Rarely a day goes by when she is home in which she does not request I hug and hold her. It matters not what I am doing, typing, cooking, eating, about to fall asleep, she can appear stating,

Being a stay-at-home mother I receive no salary for the work I do. Ask anyone about the task and art of mothering and they will most probably say, “Hardest job in the world? Mothers work incredibly hard. They are the backbone of society.” One man on an airplane piloted by a female pilot went

The morning second trimester grades came alive on power school for both students and parents to see I missed our youngest daughter’s call. I had been praying. I called her back on completing my meditation. She was not pleased with the results, needed to talk, but her break was over and she

In later years, when I had become an adult with my own children, was married to a man that my mother viewed as very successful, I believe that my mother grew ashamed of her actions of having beat me and called me names--her form of punishment. She observed me guiding and disciplining my and my husband’s children,