Philadelphia Writers Workshop
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Embracing Your Worst to Find Your Best
As children, many of us loved hating Cruella de Vil, the villain in 101 Dalmatians (the book or movie). As…
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Writing—not just for writers!
You don’t have to wake up at ungodly hours, hunch over your keyboard, tap out hundreds of words, and then…
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Conceptual Journey
What is taken for granted? What goes quicker than we thought? What can be wasted the most?…
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Time
A warm sweater coat, wrapped around me like my grandmother’s arms, flapping in the wind as I…
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What is Fifteen Minutes?
Albert Einstein said, “Time only exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Until recently, I took this time-is-just-a-construct attitude…
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By Invitation Only
This story is a “round-robin story,” meaning it was created collaboratively by writers in the Tuesday Night Writing Workshop. Each…
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First Frost
In the spring of 1961, Dad bought a postage stamp farm in Western Pennsylvania’s hill country. We…
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Autumn Days
Pipitone red & gold leaves, crisp air tell me autumn is here – they crunch under my feet…
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Restarting
In a yoga class I took twenty years ago, the teacher told us our bodies are different every day. So,…
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Coaxing My Worst Dance Partner Down the Stairs and Out the Door
Late at night, after another day of moving so little my whole body hurt and topping it…
