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Rest In Peace, Rachel

It has been a very difficult few days, our worst fears confirmed. One of my son's college age friends went missing on Wednesday night, and her body was found this morning. She had been kidnapped, robbed and murdered. There are many stories circulating out there, and I'm not entirely sure what the whole truth is. But she had gotten into some trouble in the past year, and had…

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Added by Colleen Breuning on May 13, 2008 at 11:52am — No Comments

Fall 2007 Edition of Blue Turtle Crossing Published

Hello, fellow authors and friends! I just wanted to take this opportunity to announce that the Fall 2007 edition of my e-zine, Blue Turtle Crossing, has been published. The featured poet is Nadia Brown, a Book Marketing Network participant and talented poet. She is the author of "Unscrambled Eggs," an award-winning book of poetry. I am very blessed to have her beautiful, inspirational poetry on this site! The following poets also have work posted on the site: Genny Borleis,…

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Added by Colleen Breuning on September 3, 2007 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Time.... A Writer's Biggest Challenge?

I know the key to being a successful writer is time management. Being a poet, I have become accustomed to keeping my notebook at the ready, jotting down lines, ideas and images that come to my head. Many times, these scribblings will sit on the lined pages only to be revisited weeks or months down the road. After some reworking, tweaking and polishing, they become full-fledged poems. That is how I've been working for many years.

But it seems as if this summer my fool-proof system got… Continue

Added by Colleen Breuning on August 10, 2007 at 6:12pm — 5 Comments