Courage to Heal, Allies in Healing "Coffee and Ink arrived in my mailbox today. I've been poring over it, loving it. It's full of great ideas of prompts for me and my students. Please thank your group for me. It's a great, lovely piece of inspiration." Laura Davis, author, Courage to Heal, Allies in Healing

"Coffee and Ink's chapter introductions serve as the cartilage of the book. Types of prompts are discussed. A suggested 'what if' prompt calls upon group members to explore and tug at the remnants of life's regret, relief, anger, rejection--all emotions that can ooze or explode into interesting stories. Rounding out the process depicted in the book is a parade of essays, short stories, and poems, spit out and later polished by group members as responses to a suggested prompt.

In fact, the array of writing borne from any one prompt, so different in form and style, illustrates the humanity of writing; each wanders or stomps off in its own direction, proving yet again that writing is the product of an individual's experiences that no one else can duplicate. Like segments of twine you stash in a drawer until you need them, these little works can later incorporated into new pieces." Kim Edwards, writer from Sacramento, California.