Professional Archives
By Chalida "Pinky" Rikakorn
Chalida, a student from Thailand dressed in pink everything, insisted: “I CAN’T WRITE!” I asked: “Why do you like pink? Tell your friend in Thai, then translate it into English.” The result: three beautiful paragraphs!
By David A. Sylvester
When I hear about freewriting, it feels like … freedom…! Like a bird in the sky, a leaf in the wind, la ripple on the lake at dawn, the first sign of life, the first heartbeat of a baby in a mother’s womb …
By David A. Sylvester
Many students come away from school writing assignments hating writing. This isn’t natural. As children, we loved to read and write. What happened?
By David A. Sylvester
Jonathan Maberry gives the Famous Writer keynote speech. What happened? He shocks and terrifies the LitCrit Industry with his F… Word! … Yes, I heard him myself … and it isn’t the word you are thinking of.
By David A. Sylvester
The Roman Catholic Church now rejects anti-Judaism, but a spirit of contempt for Jews and Judaism persists in the pews and blinds us to the reality that we all crucify Christ everyday by our shameful behavior.
By David A. Sylvester
The 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have spread worldwide since it began in 1935, but its principles date to the strict spiritual discipline of early Christian desert monks and St. John Cassian (360 to 435 CE).
By David A. Sylvester
Are you careful with money, yet still sinking into debt? The decline of the middle class began in the 1980s, when social values eroded and warnings against debt were cast aside.
Many readers responded to my original essay on our debt-driven way of living in “Going Broke on $44,500 a Year,” published in the San Jose Mercury News. Here are some of the suggestions that they offered to solve the middle class debt crisis.