by Joni M Fisher | Jun 10, 2025 | Writing Life
I must confess my pen fetish. Imagine my joy to learn that there is a National Ball Point Pen Day! So buckle up, I’m going to teach you something you didn’t know about pens. This holiday was created to celebrate the filing of the patent for the ball point...
by Joni M Fisher | Jun 8, 2025 | Writing Life
My best friend Caryn keeps all my secrets. She’s been a loyal, kind-hearted friend since middle school. We’ve been through many milestones together. She taught me how to shave my legs with a razor. Whenever we talk, we pick up where we left off as if only...
by Joni M Fisher | May 26, 2025 | Writing Life
A writer colleague recently asked me to name the hardest-to-write story I’ve done. This article originally appeared in The Lakeland Ledger, Polk County, Florida, on May 3, 1998. Here it is. As Polk City Hardware’s softball team storms through the season, one...
by Joni M Fisher | May 25, 2025 | Writing Life
Welcome to Embrace Your Geekness Day! This holiday was not my idea, but I embrace it wholeheartedly. Think of all the people who have been labeled geek, wonk, nerd, and such. Among them are industry leaders, creative geniuses, outcasts, and eccentrics. I embrace my...
by Joni M Fisher | May 11, 2025 | Writing Life
I have learned that teenagers live in the age of forgetting. Simple skills–even basic rules of civilized conduct–they mastered at age seven disappear at age 14, like closing doors, saying ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’, putting things back where they found them,...
by Joni M Fisher | May 5, 2025 | Writing Life
I might never go to Disney World again after a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The magic of activating animatronics from the wave of a wand, the perfection of detail, and the absolute visceral experience of the food,...
by Joni M Fisher | May 2, 2025 | Writing Life
When my daughter Jessica joined the Junior Varsity Cheerleader squad in high school, I never suspected how much it would demand of both of us. Sure, the girls cheered at football games and basketball games, but these activities merely fronted for the real...
by Joni M Fisher | Apr 21, 2025 | Writing Life
Have you heard of the 540 Writers Community? The 540 Writers Community—a faith-based 501c3 nonprofit—exists to educate, encourage, and equip writers to create clean, clear, compelling, life-changing content. The 540 Writers Community seeks to help underserved writers...
by Joni M Fisher | Apr 4, 2025 | Aviation, Writing Life
A mere six percent of the licensed pilots in America are female. As one of them, I often hear men complain, “I can’t get my wife to fly with me.” Okay, guys, let me explain something. Some of the tactics you use to attract your loved one into aviation have driven her...
by Joni M Fisher | Apr 2, 2025 | Aviation, Featured In
When my editor texted me in Israel about a ride with the Phillips 66 Aerostars on Thursday at SUN ‘n FUN, she didn’t ask if I wanted the ride, she asked if I’d be back in time for it. Even if being at the Media Center at 7:30 a.m. required mainlining caffeine, I was...