One of my favorite songs is “Harbor Lights,” by Boz Scaggs.  If any of you have ever had this experience, you’ll understand.  This song resonates so deeply with me that sometimes I tear up just listening to it, it’s that powerful.  The song takes me back to the years after…

     How often have you found yourself duking it out with things in your life that are out of your control?  You know, spinning in various “what if” scenarios, creating nightmares for yourself over something that may or may not ever happen.  The other night I found myself in such a situation driving with my…

Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association

Jerry Labriola  Brian Jud

Annual Writing Competition 2012-13 Winners

Essay

1st Place - Virginia (Pinny) Bugaeff

2nd Place - David Garnes

Honorable Mention - Dodie Milardo

Honorable Mention - Matthew Goldman…

     I went away this weekend.  I packed up a bag, boarded a plane and in just shy of three hours was enjoying lunch with my sister at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona.  With the sun warm on our backs, surrounded by the beauty of the Sonoran desert, we lingered over herb-infused…

Sadly many of us in today's hectic times are running on empty.

We all want to achieve and succeed and be successful in this world so we try really hard to do everything that we can, but sometimes we just get overwhelmed.

And sometimes on top of that overwhelmed feeling we usually are reminded that many times this world isn't such a nice place. Some of us will even go out and get a dog...

When your running on life's treadmills going no where fast, it may seem that life is…