Author: Cynthia MacGregor

A comment made online in the wake of the recent tragedy in Paris stated how very much the commenter wished to return to Paris—now more than ever. It made me stop and think. While surely nothing can take the place of a for-real trip to Paris—or Greece or the Himalayas or Fiji, or, closer to...

I had originally intended this week’s blogpost to revolve around cursive (script) writing, and whether or not it’s a lost art or should be taught in the schools. I will still touch on that subject, but my blogpost, like Topsy, “just growed,” at least in my head, as I was formulating it. Here is the...

My name will never go down next to Milton Berle’s in the annals of television, but I can honestly claim I was a sort of video pioneer.  No, I’m not talking about the two TV shows I hosted and produced in very recent years on a regular broadcast TV station in South Florida. I’m going...

Back before Google and Siri, when we had a question we needed—or simply wanted—answered, where did we go? What did we do? If we had an encyclopedia at home, we sometimes had to go no further. But not everyone owned a set of encyclopedias, and not every question was answerable by looking it up in...

I hated my sixth grade teacher. I loved school up till sixth grade. Mrs. Hewlett, the sixth grade tyrant, ruined it for me. The funny thing is, though, that today I can no longer remember what was so awful about her. The only thing I remember clearly now is the one good thing about her:...

While I don’t believe that every cloud has a silver lining, many do…including my foot and leg issues, of which I have several. As a result of them, I have walked with a cane for over three years, now. And that is what this week’s blog post touches on. As you may have gathered, I...

I often wonder what drives some writers to write nonfiction while others are impelled to write novels, short stories, and other fiction. My own output leans extremely heavily toward nonfiction. I have written a few novels for adults, and my output for kids includes fiction as well as nonfiction, but of the over-100 books I...

My very early reading tastes were hardly exceptional, nor did they point in the particular direction of an authorial future. Once past simple picturebooks and easy readers—and I got past those at an early age, reading sixth grade readers early in third grade—I dived right into the Bobbsey Twins. I found their antics, adventures, and...

There are those who wonder what the writer’s life is like, and those who think they know…but think wrong. I have met in person or corresponded with people who have such misguided notions as ~ Writers attend a series of literary teas where they exchange witty banter with other writers. ~ Writers jet all over...