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Rebecca Martin, whose CD The Growing Season was a NYT Critic's Choice, is our featured Woman in Music!

Rebecca Martin, whose CD The Growing Season was a NYT Critic's Choice, is our featured Woman in Music!

Singer, songwriter Rebecca Martin explains what a "growing season" is and why hers is on-going!
Interview with Singer-Songwriter Kaydi Johnson

Interview with Singer-Songwriter Kaydi Johnson

Kaydi Johnson discusses her unique musical style and why she finds inspiration in reading Shakespeare!
Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow

Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow

Karen Casey, author of "Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow: 12 Simple Principles" shares 12 simple steps to finding within ourselves peaceful, positive responses to life's difficult situations.

Interview with Award-Winning Poet, Idra Novey

Interview with Award-Winning Poet, Idra Novey

Idra Novey has received awards, from the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PEN Translation Fund. Read our interview with this world renowned poet!
Interview with Recording Artist Tish Hinojosa

Interview with Recording Artist Tish Hinojosa

Recording artist Tish Hinojosa discusses the influences of her Mexican heritage and what it was like to perform at the White House!
Interview with Singer-Songwriter Lucy Kaplansky

Interview with Singer-Songwriter Lucy Kaplansky

The talented Lucy Kaplansky talks about her music and how her education and work experience influences her music!
Interview with Award-Winning Poet Carey Salerno

Interview with Award-Winning Poet Carey Salerno

Carey Salerno discusses the themes that run through her award-winning poetry book, Shelter.
Could Making Comparisons Be the Source of Your Unhappiness? Eight Powerful Tips for Dealing With the Stress and Frustration In Your Life!

Could Making Comparisons Be the Source of Your Unhappiness? Eight Powerful Tips for Dealing With the Stress and Frustration In Your Life!

Mary Anne Radmacher and Jonathan Lockwood Huie, authors of "Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad" discuss how to consciously choose happiness even when life is difficult.
A Children's Book About a Difficult Subject

A Children's Book About a Difficult Subject

Mom and Dad Glue, written by Kes Gray and illustrated by Lee Wildish, is a book about how a mom and dad's love for their child is forever - even if their marriage is not.
Writer Chelsea Lowe Discusses The Challenges of Writing A Book

Writer Chelsea Lowe Discusses The Challenges of Writing A Book

Chelsea Lowe, author of "The Everything Health Guide to OCD" discusses the ups and downs of a writer's life.
Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Sara Hickman speaks with Commitment

Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Sara Hickman speaks with Commitment

The talented Sara Hickman discusses what inspires her beautiful music and how she is able to balance family and career.
Award-Winning Poet Idra Novey

Award-Winning Poet Idra Novey

Idra Novey has received awards, from the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PEN Translation Fund. Read our interview with this world renowned poet!
Why Art Education is So Important

Why Art Education is So Important

Author and art teacher Eileen S. Prince discusses the importance of teaching art to children - and explains her ambitious art curriculum!
How To Earn A Living While Pursuing Your Art and Creativity

How To Earn A Living While Pursuing Your Art and Creativity

Jackie Battenfield, author of "The Artist's Guide: How to Make A Living Doing What You Love" and a successful artist offers tips and advice how to make a living through your art.
Interview with Grammy-Nominated Recording Artist Eliza Gilkyson

Interview with Grammy-Nominated Recording Artist Eliza Gilkyson

Her music has been called "masterful" and "stylistically adventurous." Recording artist Eliza Gilkyson discusses the inspiration for her music and her definition of success.
Interview with Allison Valentine Joseph

Interview with Allison Valentine Joseph

Author Allison Valentine Joseph discusses her three novels and the influences of her native Trinidad on her writing!
Author Suzanne Jurmain discusses why it's important for children to read non-fiction.

Author Suzanne Jurmain discusses why it's important for children to read non-fiction.

Our Children's Books of the Week are The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and her Students, and The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain
Seed

Seed

Commitment's Poem of the Week is "Seed" by Anne Marie Macari, from her book, Gloryland

 Anne Marie Macari
Consider Self Publishing!

Consider Self Publishing!

Stacie Vander Pol, MBA, author of Top Self Publishing Firms, explains the advantages to self publishing your book and how to make money doing so!
Interview with Award-Winning Poet Anne Marie Macari

Interview with Award-Winning Poet Anne Marie Macari

Award-winning poet Anne Marie Macari discusses how motherhood influences her poetry and how she finds inspiration in every day events.
First-time Novelist Pens YA Novel on Learning Disabilities

First-time Novelist Pens YA Novel on Learning Disabilities

Elizabeth Stow Ellison has recently published Flight, a young adult novel about a young man with a learning disability and the effects of that disability on his entire family.
Can You Be Nice and Still Be A Success?

Can You Be Nice and Still Be A Success?

An interview with Russ C. Edelman, co-author of “Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office: Eight Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk” on how morals, compassion and sincerity can make you a winner.
Good Night World

Good Night World

 Adam Gamble
Earning a Living as Photographer

Earning a Living as Photographer

Photographer Tony Luna, author of How to Grow as a Photographer, offers advice to both professional and novice photographers
The ‘Woo Woo!’ Wild Adventure of a Forty-something Mother and Writer: An interview with NPR commentator Sandra Tsing Loh

The ‘Woo Woo!’ Wild Adventure of a Forty-something Mother and Writer: An interview with NPR commentator Sandra Tsing Loh

Read our interview with Sandra Tsing Loh, author of “Mother on Fire: A True Story About Parenting” where she discusses the challenges of being a writer.
Good Night World

Good Night World

Illustrated by Cooper Kelly

 Adam Gamble
How to Grow as a Photographer

How to Grow as a Photographer

Advice on improving one's photography skills
Definition of Stranger

Definition of Stranger

 Idra Novey
Interview with Recording Artist Sara Hickman

Interview with Recording Artist Sara Hickman

Sara Hickman creates music to rock your soul - and your kid's soul, too!
Kids Music Superstars Erin Lee and Marci

Kids Music Superstars Erin Lee and Marci

They've been called the "Indigo Girls of early childhood music." Their albums have won Family Choice Awards and ASCAP Awards. Recording artists Erin Lee and Marci recently took time out from their busy schedules to answer some questions for Commitment.