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A little over a year ago, Maximum Impact hired a project manager, Heidi Johnson, to join our team. The changes that Heidi’s skill set and precision have enabled are too many to list. But [...]

Publishers Weekly describes Labors of the Heart, by acclaimed novelist Claire Davis, as “10 heartfelt studies.” The collection gathers stories previously published to present a body [...]

Summertime is music time–always and forever–in my mind, and that has a lot to do with growing up in the Pacific Northwest during the Grunge and Gorge Amphitheater era, attending more [...]

In Swarm Theory, Christine Maul Rice writes of  “life’s amazing contradictions—the wonderful and the profane, devotion and infidelity, understanding and revenge—through stories told from [...]

If there’s one thing I’ve heard repeated more than anything else—even before my son was born—it’s this: “They grow up so fast.” There are other versions of this saying…Time flies…It seems like [...]

Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is a worldwide book club for writers that provides innovative systems for accountability, useful to writers and book lovers alike. I’ve carefully [...]

I remember my first summer after graduating from Whitman College. Following four years of reading slow, heady texts by Kant and Cixous, Maimonides and Montaigne, I dove headlong into summer [...]

Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is an innovative, low-pressure, online community for writers. We’ll study 6 books, gather for 6 webinars, & write through 6 prompts–all [...]

Here in the mountains of NC, dog days of summer doesn’t really apply–at least in terms of oppressive heat. And while my Pacific Northwest roots mean I’ll never feel completely [...]