My Rare Disease Part 3: Stomach Virus
Back to Part 2: A History of Anxiety ~ On Christmas day after I moved back to Pennsylvania, I was still under the weather and unable to eat much of
My Rare Disease Part 4: Specter
Back to Part 3: Stomach Virus ~ The next couple of days were a blur. I didn’t get any better. I lost more energy and more weight than I imagined
My Rare Disease Part 2: A History of Anxiety
Back to Part 1: Sick ~ It started again, one week before Christmas. At first I wasn’t so worried about shedding a couple of pounds since I’d ga
My Rare Disease Part 1: Sick
My Rare Disease ~ How do you write about being sick? What can you possibly say in an effort to share and educate without annihilating every sub-at
MUSH: A journey …
When I was twenty-eight years old, I moved across the country to support my boyfriend’s dream of becoming a dog musher. Nick and I traveled from
The Interview
One of the exercises my mentor (Sara Pritchard) suggested was to conduct a self-interview about my memoir and the writing process. Fortunately, Sara
The Manuscript
You start by creating a few words and then a few sentences and then it starts to grow and you nurture it and try your best to make it the best it can
Abook, Abook!
Well I’ve done it—I’ve written a book. Something I’ve always wanted to do and maybe even known I would do. Of course, that particular knowledg
Tara Caimi is an independent writer and editor with a B.A. in journalism and an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in journals and magazines including the Writer\'s Chronicle, The MacGuffin, Fire & Knives, and Oh Comely magazine.
