May 2012 – Ruth Nasrullah

Every writer has a voice but me

The more I explore personal essays, the more I fear using the present tense that is a hallmark of many essays. I sit by the

It’s been almost eight months since I ventured back into freelance journalism, and I have to believe that it’s what I was meant to do.

This is just my 100-word or so blog, so I get to be lazy with rhetorical devices (and questionably grab book covers off Amazon.com, I

Here’s one of the photos I had taken yesterday, in color and black and white. I think I look so funny and weird, although the

Ugh – for days now I’ve been promising myself to write a post on my Houston Chronicle blog – it’s been months since I did.

I’m catching up on reading Thomas French’s work. Yesterday I printed out (using much paper and ink) his series “The Exorcist in Love” and most

I got my three complimentary copies of the June Toastmaster issue and was quite surprised to see that my article on music is the cover

As of this morning I was still feeling frustrated over not having a handle on how to write the “southern sin” contest essay. The journalist

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