Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman

Eight-Week Challenge: Week Five Results

How Am I Doing? Hooray! I have much progress to report on this week. As a reminder, here are my goals for the eight-week challenge: eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories, spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table (changed to read an average of five magazinesContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Five Results”

Happy Independence Day

“fireworks” (CC BY 2.0) by  EpicFireworks  When my husband’s Time magazine arrived with its headline, “240 Reasons to Celebrate Independence Day,” I was reminded of my most memorable Fourth of July, the one 40 years ago, our country’s bicentennial. But unlike most Americans around in 1976, no fireworks or sparklers featured in my bicentennial celebration. On July 4, 1976, IContinue reading “Happy Independence Day”

Readers Write-Leaving Home

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Leaving Home”

Readers Write-The Backyard

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-The Backyard”

Readers Write-Speaking Up

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Speaking Up”

Readers Write-Doors

Each month, The Sun magazine offers fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and photos in a black-and-white format without advertising. Each issue includes provocative ideas from people of science, religion, philosophy, the arts, or a combination. Each issue also includes Readers Write, a feature compiling nonfiction submissions from the magazine’s readers on an intentionally broad topic. Occasionally I submitContinue reading “Readers Write-Doors”

Eight-Week Challenge: Week Four Results

How Am I Doing? There is a lot less green for this, the fourth, week of the challenge. But I knew that would happen. We were out of town for most of the week which means my walking routine was shot and I didn’t have time to write anything. But I did read, making aContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Week Four Results”

Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #10

Originally posted on Polishing Your Prose:
From the Editor’s Eye The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers (And How to Fix Them) The first of a ten-part series. #10. They’re, Their Now: Contractions & Homonymic Convergence Our ears (and eyes) play dirty tricks on us when it comes to contractions and the words that…