Win a week with us in Rye, New York, at the famous GUIDEPOSTS Writers Workshop, all expenses paid!
We’ll teach you all we know about inspirational writing, and your story could end up published in our magazine and on our websites.
We’re looking for true, first-person stories, not sermons or essays. It can be your own story or ghostwritten for someone else. Study the magazine and our websites. Get a feel for our style. We’ll pick 15 of you for the Workshop in Rye, New York, October 11-15, 2010.
I was waiting at a stoplight when it happened. Through the windshield I saw a small plane against the blue sky and then something fall from it. It was a man! He was a sky diver. My grandson, Clyde Lee, a parachutist in the military, had told me about such things. I held my breath until the sky diver’s parachute puffed out and he floated down beyond the tree line.
A car honking behind me broke the spell. The light was green and I had to move on, but at that moment I knew what I wanted to do: parachute from a plane!
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Gazing at my haggard visage in the bedroom mirror that morning in 1991, I didn’t know which was worse—the way I felt or the way I looked.
In a sense they were one and the same, each a reflection of the other. I had just undergone a punishing round of chemotherapy following a double mastectomy for breast cancer, and doctors had warned me that I would probably have to undergo a second round.
I looked decades older than my 33 years. My skin sagged and my face was ashen. Dark circles shadowed my sunken eyes.
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
I'm a visual artist, but it's words that have brought me the most attention.
Words—like the ones in the title to this story—that I chalk onto New York City sidewalks, from the tough Spanish Harlem neighborhood I was raised in, to SoHo, with its trendy galleries.
And words I speak to schoolkids. I talk to them about the power of believing in themselves. Then I tell them about my own journey.
John Wooden, UCLA basketball's "Wizard of Westwood" has died at the age of 99.
The university said Wooden died of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized.
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!–paging_filter–pIt’s amazing to think I’ve been doing my Santa work for more than a decade now. No, I don’t make toys way up at the North Pole. I’m a different kind of helper: his ghostwriter./p
pOur quot;partnershipquot; began many Decembers ago. I’d been asked by the editor of the newspaper where I worked to write an article about Christmas traditions and Christmas history./p
pa href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/santa-story-recipesread more/a/p
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Seven months after coming to the Today show I had one of my toughest assignments ever—the terrible shootings at Virginia Tech. Cohost Matt Lauer and I, along with the rest of the Today team, were on campus within 24 hours. Twenty-four hours is not enough time to comprehend such an overwhelming event: 32 people dead, most of them kids, slain by a fellow student.
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