by Michael Wolfman Three weeks… Three weeks is the amount of time that this blog post has been on my daily to-do list. Friday, October 27th became Thursday, November 10th became Wednesday the 16th until finally now I sit here in the main library, hiding from the cold running around outside, to write this blog…
Empowering Voice When You Have Something Worth Saying by Justice Britton Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm Theory provides a conceptual framework and/or a shared perceptual filter which centers the process of meaning-making and knowledge production within a vision of the world as a set of stories from which various communities construct and constantly re-construct their lives…
by Clara Nibbelink “That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.” —Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 When I first read this meditation by Aldo Leopold, I was struck by this 20th century hunter, woodsman and ecologist’s…
by Faith V. Macdonald Finding your voice, your particular way of expressing ideas, is an ongoing part of any writer’s development. We spend our entire writing careers searching for and honing this skill, learning not just how to clearly communicate, but how we WANT to communicate in our own authentic manner. One of the great…