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Our contributor:

Darcey Blain
Author/Writer/Editor - www.northstarwriters.com
Darcey Blain resides in Rockford, Michigan with her son, Max, and various pets. Her mother instilled her with an intense love of words and reading. She began writing short stories and poems in elementary school, but later turned to the more practical administrative field as she also enjoyed good food and a roof over her head. She eventually found her way back to the writing field by accepting the position of managing editor for North Star Writers Group. Editing and clarifying the work of others is definitely her strong suit, but she couldn’t hide her desire to create and write any longer.

Her favorite sweatshirt reads “That’s Ms. Liberal, vegetarian, tree-hugging, hippie freak to you, buddy”. That pretty much tells you everything you’d want to know.

About North Star Writers Group:
North Star Writers Group is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based syndicate, providing newspaper columns, customized magazine articles and contract editing services to publishers throughout North America. Our writers are selected for their fresh, engaging perspective on real issues - political, family, social, economic, moral and many others.

North Star Writers Group distributes 16 weekly newspaper columnists to op-ed, business and feature pages, who can purchase our material on a piece-by-piece basis, weekly or through our monthly Total Access subscription.

North Star Writers Group also has writers available to produce freelance magazine articles on a wide variety of topics. We can take assignments directly from editors, submit ideas via queries or submit completed articles for your consideration. North Star always researches the publications to which we submit material, so we are familiar with what you need. Our magazine freelancers work for your established freelance rates, and all our work is professionally style- and copy-edited by two full-time, professional editors before it is submitted to magazine editors.

Featured Articles:

Parenting Articles

Parenting Insight? Like Everyone, You’ll Learn to Trust Me - By Darcey Blain - Always one for offering an alternative point of view, I’d like to introduce my new column, “Kids All Around Me”. I’m not your typical parent living the average family life. I’m actually a forty-something, single mom living in an apartment with my teenage son, three cats and a pet mouse (the last of three mice we adopted last summer – the other two are in plastic bags and cardboard box caskets in our freezer waiting to be buried in the spring). I’m not kidding. This is my world and, honestly, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m rarely bored and few would consider me dull. So, a parenting column? I know this stuff, really. You’ll learn to trust me. Everyone does. See, one’s understanding of parenting involves more than just the raising of one’s own children. I believe we are all part of larger families, circles of friends and communities that expose us to different kinds of situations and people. Few have a more eclectic experience in this regard than I do.

We Know How To Do Birthdays Right - By Darcey Blain - I’m exhausted. I just returned to my nice, quiet apartment after spending the afternoon at my niece’s seventh birthday party. Don’t get me wrong, I truly enjoy hanging out with five children between the ages of three and seven years for an afternoon. (Maybe enjoy isn’t exactly the right word, but it’s very close.) I’m just incredibly grateful when I can say good-bye, get my hugs and walk out the door with my 14-year-old and go home.