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August McLaughlin

Author, Journalist, and Podcaster

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Special Announcement: Celebrate Beauty & Win Fab Prizes

February 8, 2012

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." —Ralph Waldo Emerson What is beauty? …

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Does Dirt Have Calories? — My Story

January 19, 2012

(Update: A fuller version of this story appears in my book: Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment - Amberjack Publishing, …

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Show to Tell

November 9, 2011

We've all heard the writing principle, "Show, don't tell." By avoiding endless descriptions and summarizations (aka, "expositing"), we allow …

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The Dream Diet: The WRITE Way to Success

August 29, 2011

I had a long chat with a woman today who reminds me so much of my former self: lots of potential but too insecure to recognize her dreams, …

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