This month’s prompt is from My Journal, My Voice, a guided journal I wrote to support Family Shelter Service, a Chicago-area organization that brings crisis help and long-term healing to families contending with domestic abuse. If you are looking for the chance to explore, a little bit at a time, challenges of any kind, the book is available here In journaling, it is important to forget freshman English class and the expectation of red pens and grades. Better to just write wi

Today’s writing prompt comes from a new development in my writing life: The Sisters’ Writing Club. The brainchild of sister-in-law Nan, the club invites all five of us to write a brief piece once a month on the same topic. We share our pieces via email, then respond with delight to each one as it comes up. A recent prompt, “When I was nine…” yielded stories about a cousin ‘s baptism (in a river!) in North Carolina, a birthday visit to the family farm in Illinois, a mean but i