by AnnSheybani | Dec 13, 2025 | Life, Reading, Writing
At my 60th birthday party a couple of years back, something interesting happened. A number of my friends started talking about retirement—counting down the days, making plans to “slow down,” fantasizing about endless yoga retreats in Mexico and Netflix...
by AnnSheybani | Dec 8, 2025 | Reading
Every year around the holidays, I love pulling together book recommendations—and this year, I thought: who better to ask than published authors? After all, writers tend to be voracious readers who know their stuff. I asked some of our Summit Press authors to share...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 27, 2025 | promotion, publishing, Writing
Most evenings after work, my father would be outside running the lawn mower, spraying the grass with a garden hose, or spreading Scott’s seed, dandelion killer, or lime by the 50-lb bagful. Come fall, he’d attack the leaves with a rake for hours on end and...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 24, 2025 | Writing
I thought I’d bring this post back because it’s even more relevant than ever, thanks to cultural fatigue.You know what I’m talking about, that sense that doing ANYTHING seems so…utterly pointless. Add in the holidays, and who feels like doing...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 17, 2025 | Reading, Writing
“This is the hardest thing you will ever do.” That’s what Gordo, the instructor of our Intro to Scuba Diving class, told us while he scrawled his name on the blackboard. Gordo was a big guy, nearly 300 pounds of flesh that couldn’t have been...
