Adrift

In these chaotic times when people of all nations are losing jobs, homes, and for some lives as well due to starvation, political unrest, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, it feels like the Earth has lost her moorings and is adrift at sea, tossed around by waves caused not only by prevailing winds, but changing winds. But what does one do when the world seems to be lost?

In these chaotic times when people of all nations are losing jobs, homes, and for some lives as well due to starvation, political unrest, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, it feels like the Earth has lost her moorings and is adrift at sea, tossed around by waves caused not only by prevailing winds, but changing winds. But what does one do when the world seems to be lost? Our world is definitely on a wild ride across storm tossed waves of change. Hang on for the ride as you read these previously published articles with additional commentary.

Bio: Vicki H. Moss is Editor-at-Large for Southern Writers Magazine and an award winning poet and author of How to Write for Kids’ Magazines, Writing with Voice, Rendezvous With Destiny--When God Calls, Smelling Stinkweed—Naked Gardening and Other World News, and Rogue Hearts—Making Sense of the Boston Marathon Bombings. She was reared in Chattanooga, Tennessee during the week and raised on her family’s Appalachian Alabama farm on weekends. She attended the University of Tennessee, is a Precept Ministries Leader, and Christian Communicators graduate. She’s written for Hopscotch and Boy’s Quest magazines for the last decade. She’s also published in South West Writer’s The Sage, Country Woman, In the City, Borderlines, and Scotland’s Thistle Blower. Selected to be a presenter of her fiction and creative nonfiction short stories for three conferences in a row at the Southern Women Writers Conference held at Rome, GA’s Berry College, Vicki is a speaker and faculty member for national conferences as she continues to write about the South. You can connect with her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter: @VickiMoss