Top 10 Excuses NOT to Write:
10. My cat wants me to play with her.
9. My friends want me to play with them.
8. I have to clean my house (heh-heh).
7. It’s a gray day, and I need sun to be inspired.
6. I have a bunch of errands to run-and, oh, yeah, I need to work out.
5. [...]

A funny thing happened once I got my new knee. After spending nine years doing water exercise-the only kind of exercise I thought I could do with a knee in such bad condition-I didn’t really want to get back into the water again unless it was a leisure activity. For me, joint effort, then water [...]

Boomer with the girls

It all started when I was a kid and was told, “NO, you can’t have a cat or dog because you’re allergic and having an animal would mean more asthma attacks…”
Anyone who really knows me should KNOW better than to tell me, “NO, you can’t (fill in the blank),” especially when it [...]

An exciting collection of short stories that explore how we as ordinary humans cope with circumstances that test our convictions. Both popular fiction and literary stories written by members of The Chicago Contingent, most of whom are alums or faculty of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.
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