by Shannon Popkin | Apr 25, 2012 | Church, Goals, Writing
“I think you should share your peanut butter & jelly,” I told her. (I didn’t really say ‘peanut butter & jelly’–but for the sake of this post, we’ll call it that.)”But I don’t want to share my peanut butter...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 30, 2012 | Writing
When I was a summer camp counselor, our director kept this yellow playground ball in the room where the counselors met–it was a therapy ball of sorts. You could call for the Yellow Ball when you had a story to share or just wanted to rant for a while....
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 16, 2011 | Mistakes, Writing
Today, I ate lunch with the most accomplished writer I’ve ever personally met. In the past thirty years, she’s written twenty-five books and over a thousand magazine articles. (Can you accomplish that and still squeeze in the traditional practices of...