Blooming Women
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  • Watch us grow!
  • About Blooming Women
  • About Being a Contributor
  • Contact
  • Happy Birthday, Blooming Women! One Year Today!
  • Blog—Maniacal Musings—Becky Lyn Rickman, Managing Editor
  • Blog—Jessica's Journey—Jessica VanVactor, Guest Contributor
  • Blog—My Armenia—Carol Rickman's Blog
  • Dealing with miscarriage
  • My Story
  • Circles
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Being Single
  • 5 Stages of divorce recovery
  • The Circus is in Town
  • (You're covered with) The Fingerprints of God
  • Thunder Roared and Love Soared
  • A Period Piece
  • A sneak preview of the Gertie sequel!
  • Six Steps to Cultivate your Femininity in the Business World
  • Chore Zoning or Don't try this at home!
  • The 50 with Meredith Morse—Opera Singer
  • The 50 with Jessica VanVactor
  • Memorizing Joy
  • AT LAST! My interview with Shan White, Life Coach for women in transition
  • Questions and statements we don't care if we never, ever get asked or told again (am I right, girls?)
  • The Date
  • Moonshadow's Spirit
  • Broken Writer + Hypnotherapy = Amazing Trips
  • The "R" Word
  • The 50 with Carol Shepherd Rickman
  • Triumph During Transitions
  • A Kentucky Afternoon
  • Mothers
  • 10 things chemo taught me
  • What if . . .
  • Forgiveness—A poem
  • Mantegories (n. from the Latin; man+categories)
  • Insomnia 101
  • Blooming Bud Interview: Sierra
  • Masterful Mindsets
  • It's in the bag!
  • Important lessons for children: Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can
  • Nursery rhymes, and times, and slimes, and grimes, and crimes
  • Things I learned as a single mom
  • Sadie's Soapbox: Dating
  • The Dress
  • 8 Things That Have Surprised Me About Having a Large Family
  • The gift of longing
  • The Semicolon Project
  • Most embarrassing moments—culinary edition
  • MilitaReality—a brat's perspective
  • About those elusive wisps of thought
  • Being there
  • The Giving Mom
  • How I still haven't learned to keep my smart mouth shut!
  • If you give a mom a cookie . . .
  • Cacti and Geraniums
  • The Three Gardeners
  • Beauty is as beauty does
  • Words for Sabra
  • Arm scratching in Baltimore
  • Pornography didn't kill our love and friendship . . . I did . . . and how we got it back
  • Hardening off our little bloomers
  • The Wonderful, Magical Women of Blooming Television
  • Shake it like a Polaroid picture!
  • 25 Date Nights (that aren't dinner and a movie)
  • Hills Like White Elephants
  • Maryland Beaten Biscuits
  • The night we thought the house was exploding
  • A mysterious case of goosebumps or "What is that on the wall?"
  • Militareality—Real stories of military wives
  • Finding my metal in wood
  • Another blooming bud interview
  • Chariot of Fire
  • Secret gifts of love
  • The best prank I ever pulled was . . .
  • Connie
  • Dating and other hazards
  • Favorite childhood memories
  • When God speaks . . .
  • Zanie gets into another sticky situation
  • No-see-ums: A little useful information
  • I love my kids, but . . .
  • Meg's poem
  • Another blooming bud interview
  • Some of my favorite herbal recipes are . . .
  • I love my cat, but . . .
  • I love all creatures, but . . .
  • The thing all girls and women must see and know . . .
  • The Great Chicken Debacle
  • The Powerful Influence of Brothers
  • How I feel about blooming is . . .
  • Sometimes grandma is up—other times she is simply upside-down
  • Anyone out there as anxious as I am?
  • Some of my funniest childhood memories are . . .
  • You might be addicted to Harry Potter if . . .
  • This month's survey:
  • Another Blooming Bud interview
  • The most valuable life lesson I've learned is . . .
  • The greatest blessing to come out of the most painful thing I ever experienced was . . .
  • The most powerful influence on my life is . . .
  • The thing that could have broken our family, but didn't was . . .
  • The funniest thing that ever happened to me was . . .
  • The time my dad really surprised me was when . . .
  • NEW FEATURE: Interviews with Blooming Buds
  • ANOTHER NEW FEATURE: A survey
  • The most valuable life lesson I've ever learned is . . .
  • My most embarrassing moment was when . . .
  • What really puzzles me is . . .
  • One of the most fun days I ever had was . . .
  • The most scared I've ever been was when . . .
  • The people who have been the biggest influence on me are . . .
  • I like to relax by . . .
  • The best way to do . . .
  • My most embarrassing moment was when . . .
  • The most fun I ever had was when . . .
  • When I grow up, I want to be . . .
  • What really puzzles me is . . .
  • The most amazing bargain I ever found was . . .
  • Those annoying things kids do and what they mean
  • My shameless self-promotion
  • The thing about getting older is . . .
Photo courtesy of Creative Event Studio (a brilliant photographer whose work is currently on display at a Starbucks in Kansas City!) 
"Sometimes, with smudges on our cheeks, dirt on our hands, and shoes untied, stammeringly, but smilingly, we present God with a dandelion, as if it were an orchid or a rose. If, for now, the dandelion is the best we have to offer, He receives it, knowing what we may later place on the altar." 
--Neal A. Maxwell
We write . . . a lot. We share . . . a lot. We read . . . a lot. We need our women . . . a whole lot. We share so many experiences and are, at the same time, completely unique in our perspective. We need each other. Our hope is that this online magazine, which is at its embryonic stage, will bloom into a place where we can all meet and share. We are depending on you and your contributions to make it work. We hope you'll join us on this journey and make this a beautiful thing. 

All contributions are voluntary, shared in the best interests of other women, and follow the criteria below:

  • No men-bashing. While you may air silly things a particular man has done, the stories will be anonymous in order to not humiliate and will be understood to not reflect the gender as a whole. 
  • No kid-bashing. See above. 
  • No profanity. In order to not offend the masses, we will (edit) out any profanity and put in its place a splendiforous word that we may or may not have made up.
  • No graphic sex or violence. 
  • This is NOT a forum for debate or argument, political or otherwise. Check your contention at the door, please, and just have fun.



Here is what we offer you:

  • We welcome not previously published authors. Unlike many others, we don't require that you have publishing credentials. It kind of goes along with our "real women—real stories" tenet. So please don't let that hold you back.
  • We offer you that publishing cred that is so important if you plan on writing professionally.
  • Your stories belong to you. We don't own them. We just "borrow" them and will send you a simple contract that tells you so. All we ask is that if you publish somewhere else in the future, you mention that your piece was "previously published in Blooming Women Online Magazine."
  • We allow you to use any name you want. Your own. Something invented. A first name only. Initials. An attribute in a place (a la Sleepless in Seattle). 
  • We will gladly do your editing for you. No changes in the story, just grammatical or wording suggestions. All revisions will be approved by you. We find that many women are hesitant to submit because they don't think they write well. We disagree! Your story should be told by you any way you want to tell it.


To contribute, please go to the Contact page and drop us a line. We can't wait to hear from you!


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