by Terra Osterling | Nov 17, 2023 | Storytelling
“Well, hello there. Have you been waiting long?” “Oh, just almost two years.” “Wow. Has it been that long?” Ummmm….yep. It has been almost two years since I last posted to my blog. Ooops? To be fair, my last post here (February 2022) coincides with when I launched my...
by Terra Osterling | Dec 20, 2019 | Storytelling, Uncategorized
I was almost four and a half in the summer of 1977. Just a baby nerd-introvert. My mom was having a Tupperware party and wanted everyone out of the house, so my dad took my sister and me to the movies. I was so small that I could stand up in the row and put my chin on...
by Terra Osterling | Dec 1, 2017 | Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling, Uncategorized
Not long ago I came across an old driver’s license issued to me in 2000, when I was 27 years old. Driver license photos do not tend to be the most flattering likeness of a person, but as I peer at a seventeen-years-younger me through the reader-portion of my...
by Terra Osterling | Apr 14, 2017 | Business of Freelance Writing, Literary Journalism Examples, Publishing, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Writing
This spring marks five years of freelance writing. It was a slow start. I spent those first months reading and researching, while meeting my nephew’s school bus. Over the following two years, I cultivated business relationships and my time slowly began to fill...
by Terra Osterling | Sep 23, 2016 | Babysitting Nephews, Inspiration, Storytelling
Summer is over for nephews K. and D. <sad trombone> Summer 2016 was ‘all-baseball all the time’ as both boys are on travel teams. Practices started way back in March. For months, if they weren’t at a game, they were at practice. I don’t know how my sister does...
by Terra Osterling | Mar 10, 2016 | Business of Freelance Writing, Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling
One week ago today, I stretched way out of my comfort zone by participating as a vendor at the annual Women of Focus Trade Show. The one day event was the culmination of four months of expending time and money to prepare for my first big trade show. Why would a writer...
