By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Have you ever attended a party? Joined a club? Spent the first day on a new job? Visited a church? Moved into a new neighborhood? What is the one thing that helped you survive the newness? That's easy—being welcomed and feeling you are appreciated is vital…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills It’s that time of year, and most of us are in a quandary of what to give our writer friends. We want them to know they are loved and appreciated with the perfect item that suits their personality, but what? Search no more! The following will…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Welcome to the third and final post in our series 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. Be sure to catch Part One and Part Two if you’ve missed them. Without further ado, it’s quite fitting at this time of year that we start with……

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills ’Tis the season of the turkey. If you enjoy eating the Thanksgiving bird, then you love the season. If you’re the turkey, well not so much. You’ve probably spent the past year hatching ways to disguise yourself. For the turkey, I commend his ingenuity. For the…

by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Welcome back to Part Two of our series 11 Ways to Create a Sense of Place. If you missed the opener to this series where we mentioned 1. Food, 2. Dialect, and 3. Conducting Research, be sure to check out Part One here. We’ll continue our eleven…