Some rejections just hurt more than others. When you've taken the time to research a journal or magazine and you just know that your work...

Since I've last written, I have returned to in-person teaching during this global pandemic, my oldest son has run away from home, and...

When I was a kid, mostly in middle school, I started journaling. I was compulsive, disciplined, and insatiable. I literally wrote every...

"What really knocks me out is a book, that when you're all done reading it, you wish the author wrote it was a terrific friend of yours...

I had every intent only to look through favorite books for dog-eared and underlined pages. And instead, I found myself sucked into the...

Every summer, I restart Don Quixote swearing this time, I’ll get to tilting at windmills. Chuckling at the early pages at a love of...

Today my family went sledding. And I stayed inside. It was glorious. I hate the cold, always wish I was born in a warmer climate. I am...

The Catcher in the Rye - My intention was only to flip through the pages to find those passages I'd "saved for later." But which copy to...

My wife and I own double copies of at least a dozen books. Years of similar tastes in reading and then of course, we became members of a...

During this never-ending pandemic, our car died a slow and painful death. With everyone working and learning from home, our road trips...

I have always been a collector. As a child it was miniature plastic figurines - Smurfs, Stawberry Short Cake, and Monchichis (definitely...

I did not drop off the face of the planet between late November and now. Holidays. Birthdays. Pandemic. Take your pick. For some poets...

This weekend, I took much needed time to relax and recover from the pressures of on-line teaching, parenting four children, staying...

When I was little, if you'd asked me, I would have said I wanted to be an actress when I grew up. But by the time I enrolled in college,...

Every once in a while you'll come across a book that speaks to your core. As an avid reader, I have countless favorites that I'll read...

Almost every poem I've written is in first person. Most of the time, I am both the narrator and the author. And a lot of the time the...

A seemingly innocuous question asked from one writer to another, on a unseasonably warm day in November. "So, Tiffany, what are you...

I wish I were a disciplined writer. But honestly, I'm not a disciplined person. Besides brushing my teeth, I have very few habits that I...

In 2005 I started seriously sending out my poetry to publications. Over these past 15 years, I have received 97 rejections and 31...

There's nothing quite like knowing someone else you know, respect, care about, love - is reading your work. It's not the same as faceless...