Nailing it
By Marla Boone
Music should fit the mood
By David Lindeman
A little micro nonfiction from Vietnam Veterans
At recent meeting of the war memoir writing group at the Miami Valley Veterans Museum, I introduced the participants to an approach poet Anna Caters uses which I call creative non-fiction micro-fiction with American haikus. This is a rather long descriptor; however, it explains that these veterans were recording experiences from their military lives with a few words (I advised using 100 or fewer although micro can be up to 300), The story is then followed by an American haiku in which the author may express a reaction to the story using three lines of poetry. Japanese haiku use syllables in the lines as follows, 5,7,5, and usually have an image from nature. We Americans are independent rebels and do whatever we like, but we usually use three short lines.
Fish, seafood are healthy choices for diets
Dear Dietitian,
Does cinnamon really help with blood sugar?
Dear Dietitian,
Month, light & season
By James McGuire
Good things are happening in downtown Troy
By David Lindeman
Have You Seen Scott’s Version of Napoleon?
By Vivian Blevins
Election Day brings back memories
By David Lindeman
Stopping another bad trade deal
By Sen. Sherrod Brown