It appears from the lack of responses to our last Inviting Writing theme that none of our readers has had a food-related break-up—or at least was willing to write about it. I'm very happy for you.

OK, you weaseled it out of me: With every New Year comes a new year, different from the old year, that has to be remembered and written down, over and over again, on checks, invoices, computer files ...

Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it. By Klara Feenstra When I first started writing my silly little novel, it was a desperate attempt to escape the demands ...