For those unfamiliar with the show, to better read this article, this is the way The Voice works: A singer comes out onto a stage, and the four Voice coaches have their chair backs to the singer. The singer has 90 seconds to give the coaches a reason to turn their chairs. Once one coach turns his or her chair, the singer is no longer an auditioner, and becomes
From the kitchen table, Zera saw Drew and Bear on the back porch, taking off their black rain parkas. It had stopped raining. “Find anything?” Lily asked as Drew opened the door, her voice rising above the rock and roll music playing on the radio. Drew’s eyes darted from Lily to Zera and back again. “I was sure it was some kind of elaborate trap,” he said, “that somehow Void
As a teacher, it’s hard to define what motivates kids to bully others, and what keeps bullied kids from standing up for themselves. Those who stand by and watch are probably the biggest problem, though, and sometimes its teachers as well as students who are the bystanders. As a bullied kid myself, I found it much easier to identify the bullies, the bullied, and the bystanders in my own classroom,
A Feasibility Study I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. -Winston Churchill Every proposed solution to the Chechnya situation encompasses its own degree of varying feasibility and complications, particularly in regard to the practical implementation of those ideas. Despite understandable difficulties, each theory displays a
As part of learning my craft as a writer, I belonged to the Rocky Mountain Writer’s Workshop in the seventies and eighties. It was an invaluable experience that took me from a bumbling wannabe to a confident albeit part-time professional. The writer-in-residence for the monthly workshop was the award winning Denver author Ed Bryant. Ed’s generous support helped produce a number of successful authors, particularly in the speculative fiction field.
