Some Days I Miss Being Lois Lane

By Lynn Slaughter / June 7, 2016 /

I was with my son one day last month when we stopped at the neighborhood cycle shop to pick up the shiny new bike he’d purchased for his daughter’s seventh birthday.

The Bobby Knights of Ballet

By Lynn Slaughter / June 1, 2016 /

No question about it. Bobby Knight was a brilliant basketball coach who brought championships and glory to Indiana University. He was also a bully

Fiction Writers Get to Play Pretend Part II

By Lynn Slaughter / May 25, 2016 /

So last week, I confessed that one of my fantasy dream jobs as a kid was becoming an advice columnist. My passion for dance took me in a different direction, but

Fiction Writers Get to Play Pretend

By Lynn Slaughter / May 18, 2016 /

Even as a kid, I loved reading the newspaper, especially the advice columns. The problems people wrote about fascinated me—cheating husbands, in-laws from hell, warring siblings. Long before there was reality television, there was Ann Landers. Half the fun was in reading her salty responses to the letters she received. Not surprisingly, “advice columnist” landed…

Losing My Mom

By Lynn Slaughter / May 11, 2016 /

My mother’s sister Margaret dropped dead at 84. She was feeding her cat. At the time, I didn’t appreciate what a terrific way to go this was. It was

Depressed Friend or Loved One? What Not to Say

By Lynn Slaughter / May 7, 2016 /

Very few people have ever laid eyes on the husband of a very successful local author. She attends all writing and social events without him. “He suffers from the depression,” she once explained in

CUT ME FREE by J.R. Johansson: A Memorable Read

By Lynn Slaughter / April 27, 2016 /

I always know a book has touched something deep inside me when days after finishing it, I’m still immersed in the world of the characters and wondering how they’re doing since I last read about them! Yes, I do know there’s a difference between fictional characters

Blaming My Neural Circuitry

By Lynn Slaughter / April 20, 2016 /

As a kid, I was regularly criticized by my family members for being “too sensitive.” Even as I vehemently denied the accusation, my feelings were terribly hurt! And secretly

Psychic Pleasures

By Lynn Slaughter / April 13, 2016 /

Years ago, I took a communications course from a professor who announced on the first day, “There’s no such thing as altruism.” A staunch proponent of exchange theory, he insisted that all social interactions are governed by people’s desire to gain a reward in exchange for providing something of value to others. I gamely attempted…

In My Next Life, I Want to Be Dean Koontz

By Lynn Slaughter / April 6, 2016 /

Okay. I admit it. I’m incredibly jealous of Dean Koontz. It’s not just his prodigious talent and prolific success as a writer. It’s also that he still writes on an old Commodore word processor. He’s never bothered to learn how to do email. If he needs to send a message, he simply writes it out…

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