Andrea Cooley Creative Services

Some of you know that I have led several creative writing workshops at a nearby women’s prison. It’s actually something I did for the first time as a community writing class at Drake and then ended up writing a major paper on my senior year. Even after devoting 2 semesters to the concept and act [...]

There aren’t many things in my life that I do and then immediately feel the need to share with others, but I figure that’s a great reason for a blog, so my big accomplishment of the night (the week, the summer!) is making pesto with home-grown basil!
Now, I’ve been growing basil on our balcony for [...]

If you know me even remotely well, you know that I love to read. magazines, books, newspapers, billboards. If there are words on it, I’ll read it. So of course when my mom sent me this quote I had to share it:
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart [...]