On Family
Who doesn’t have a slew of great stories to share when it comes to their family? From funny family stories handed down through the generations to more current happenings that will one day turn into family legend, we want to hear them all. No holds barred.
Tentative Chapter Titles:
- I'm No Chicken! (wild antics)
- I'm Telling! You're in Trouble! (zany things you overheard, participated in or witnessed)
- Dinner, down and dirty (stirring the pot, dishing it out, family mealtime)
- Forget the closet! (discovering family skeletons in a drawer, under a mattress, in a letter)
- I inherited what? (keepsakes, antiques and quirks)
- Waiting in line for the john, the jam and the juice (sharing cramped spaces, clothes)
- Ringleaders (your family circus guru, leader of your pack)
- Family reunions (unforgettable in so many ways; the missing link)
Updated: 3/12/2012
Deadline: Open until we get enough workable stories to fill a title.
Thank you and good luck!
SUBMIT YOUR STORY HERE
About this title's co-creator
Linda O’Connell is an accomplished writer and seasoned teacher. A positive thinker, she writes from the heart, bares her soul and finds humor in everyday situations. Although she has won awards for poetry, prose and fiction, she considers herself an essayist. Her stories appear in fifteen Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Voices of Autism and Voices of Breast Cancer, several Adam's Media anthologies, HCI Ultimate series books, and numerous Silver Boomer anthologies. Her work can be found in regional and national publications: The Writer's Journal, Reminisce Magazine, Sasee, True Love, Joyful Woman, Thriving Family, and also in numerous literary journals, and on line and more. She writes a column for a local small press.
Linda lived two years in Delta Junction, Alaska. It was a remote, rural town at the end of the Alaska Highway where herds of buffalo, moose and caribou thundered down her gravel road. The glorious summers and round-the-clock daylight were as exciting as the forever-long dark winters and extreme climate. The stars looked so close that it appeared she could pluck one from the sky. Linda left her footprints in Alaska. That small town and its residents left an imprint on her. Linda wrote a book, Queen of the Last Frontier, about one of the first women settlers in Delta Junction.
The ocean tugs on Linda's Midwest soul with the same intensity that the moon pulls the tide. She and her husband vacation on the Gulf Coast every summer. Their blended family of four adult children and nine grandchildren keep them very busy.
Linda blogs at http://lindaoconnell.blogspot.com
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