Grace Notes #16: Grief at Eleven Months

June 26, 2019

Big news! I finished a first draft of the book I’m writing about our cancer experience. In March, when I …

Iowa Summer Writing Festival – 2016

July 15, 2016

June 26, 2014

I love to go to Iowa. Not just to glide past the flat lands of corn on I-80, or to …

June 17, 2014

Thanks to Jan Weissmiller, poet and co-owner of Prairie Lights, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor’s Journey of Faith and Self will …

August 9, 2012

Infusing ordinary lives with detail makes story, Marilyn Abildskov* told us at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in July. She …

July 15, 2012

Sentence in Poetry and Prose” was the catchy title faculty member Juliet Patterson chose for the week session I just …

July 27, 2010

A few summers ago, I took a class on personal essays at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival with David Bouchier …