Mirka Muse

Apparently, that’s a thing. And it’s not funny. Social Media Stress , not to be confused with Social Media Phobia, is what happens w...

Ahm...Not As one whose blog is not the talk of the town, I am an authority on how not to have a blog that gets attention. Whe...

“ Courage is not the towering oak  that sees storms come and go; It is the fragile blossom  that opens in the snow. ” ― Alice Mack...

PLACEBO: Noun: placebo ; plural noun: placebos 1.      A harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological...

To the purely rational mind, January first is just another day. This year it is a Tuesday. Another Tuesday. But the change of a digit ...

In some places it is--- In some it is--- { Hello, Down under^ } And where I am it is always--- { Even the lights do...

There are words that have changed meaning over the generations. Think how cool went from “of or at fairly low temperature” to an expressi...

My late father was a holocaust survivor who lost every member of his family. He lived this dark nightmare in his teens, and came out of it...

Third night of Hanukkah, and our yearly holiday party is still not on. For many years we had a few families get together to light th...

*I explained this in an old post, here As the month of November comes to its inevitable conclusion, all across this land writers eithe...

When I was a wee one, one of my teachers used to say, and often, “ Remember to breathe. ” This struck me as funny. Who forgets to bre...

~ November 13 ~ Indulge me as I reminisce, combining world history with personal. The year was 2015, and it was Friday. DS had j...

...Only this one is feline. When my kids were little, writing with them present was impossible. First drafting, at least, is something...

A few months ago a writer on a kid-lit chat board asked how others approach revising a novel. She’s written many picture book texts, b...

A few months ago, the kid-lit writing community buzzed and booed when someone finally spilled the beans on the perfidy of one agent, who t...

Kids, skip this. It’s not for you. (Yet) You know you’re getting older when a photograph of you from ten years ago that you though...