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Book Cover: A Relentless Spirit: Catharine Ladd, Southern Educator, Entrepreneur, and Author, 1808–1899 by Patricia V. Veasey

A Relentless Spirit: Catharine Ladd, Southern Educator, Entrepreneur, and Author, 1808–1899 by Patricia V. Veasey

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Meet Kim Love Stump

“Maureen’s guidance is bringing my dream of being a writer to life—one assignment, one class, one submission at a time.”

"Providence. Serendipity. Synchronicity. Whatever you prefer to call it, I experienced it when I signed up for Writing to Heal with Maureen Ryan Griffin in 2010. I chose the class, not because of the subject matter, but in spite of it. I wanted to take a writing class and the time worked best for my schedule, that was all. At least that's what I told myself.

In reality, I was carrying a constant weight of sadness from my mother's death two years earlier. Through the course and Maureen's tutelage, I experienced writing that healed my heart. The course was structured around writing about our personal pain or loss, but not just about that. Maureen encouraged me, and all of us in the class, to write about a variety of subjects and to try all kinds of writing: prose and poetry, lists and letters. By the end of the short course I felt as if the vise that had a perpetual grip on my heart had been unwound. I could breathe again.

Since that first class, I have participated in eight WordPlay "Under Construction" sessions. This has provided me with inspiration and encouragement, as well as laugh-out-loud fun and joy. It has also been very productive. I have completed a young adult fantasy novel, A Clearing in the Forest, that I have wanted to write for over a decade. Maureen's guidance is bringing my dream of being a writer to life — one assignment, one class, one submission at a time."

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