On Writing | Vicki Hinze

Creating Characters: Working the Clay

by Vicki Hinze | Jan 9, 2008 | On Writing

My husband is a multi-medium artist. One medium is pottery. I enjoy watching him work with the clay and have since he was working with Raku one day and I was helping him quench the pots.You take these red-hot pots out of the kiln and put each one into a small metal...

WELCOME 2008!

by Vicki Hinze | Jan 2, 2008 | On Writing

ACKNOWLEDGMENTACCEPTANCEATTITUDEASPIRATIONSA new year. A chance for a new beginning, a new direction–a fresh start.Some changes we make will be so welcome, we’ll open our arms and embrace them with enthusiasm and zeal and a “Oh, yes! Finally!”We acknowledge...

NEW YEAR’S EVE TO-DO LIST

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 31, 2007 | On Writing

Today the door closes on 2007. For some it’s been a good year. For others, the best they can say is in short order it will be over. But for the majority of us 2007, like most other years, was a mixture of both. And how we view it largely depends on how we view its...

CHILD EXPLOITATION/PROTECTION

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 22, 2007 | On Writing

I posted an article on Child Exploitation with a link to a very insightful and informative article by author, Liam Jackson.Then I discovered that one must be a member of myspace.com to read said article by way of that link. So I emailed Liam and asked for his...

TIME DOES NOT HEAL–BUT TWO LITTLE MIRACLES…

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 21, 2007 | On Writing

Two years ago today, my beloved sidekick, Alex, died. It was a year before I could think about her without tearing up, and nearly another before I could speak of her without choking up.We both worked at home and she was my constant companion for fourteen years. Her...

One Holy Night–Times 2

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 18, 2007 | On Writing

This one of those “can you believe it” days.In the news this morning, there’s a report on a thief that has me shaking my head and wondering, “What is s/he thinking?”Stealing isn’t a novelty; unfortunately, it happens with monotonous regularity. So what made this...