Angie Klink

Essays and Columns

After Angie took the class "Writing from Life" based on the book by Susan Wittig Albert, she burned up her keyboard with essays. Angie joined Women’s Ink, a writing group spawned from the class. This faction of 9 women is her port in a writing storm (or even on a sunny day) fortifying her with topics and essential chocolate.

Angie’s essays - humorous, nostalgic and poignant - have appeared in numerous publications, including The Indianapolis Star, the Journal and Courier of Lafayette, Indiana, the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Indiana Preservationist magazine.

She's a regular attendee of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Her column, "From the Testosterone Trenches", is witty and comic, gleaned from her life with two sons:

Culture Pops

Watching Samantha Stevens twinkle her nose on TV’s Bewitched in the ‘60s, eating from a harvest gold Kenmore fridge in the ‘70s, being told you look Betty Crocker in the ‘80’s and raising two boys (one techy, the other "Trekie" ) in the ‘90s and beyond can come in handy when you’re a pop culture kind of woman who writes.

In Culture Pops, Angie writes about the mod and the odd, the current trend that rises from the ruins of an old craze and the emotions that swirl around it all.

Take a look at how Culture Pops for Angie:

"Do you poop out at parties?"
Angie turned Lucy, October 31, 2004
Photo by JoAnn Darling