Phyllis Edgerly Ring is an award-winning freelance writer and columnist for United Press International's ReligionandSpirituality.com. She has more than twenty years of experience and more than seven hundred articles published in several dozen magazines and newspapers, including American Profile, Christian Science Monitor, Ms., Writer's Digest, Bay Area Parent, Yankee, and many others. She offers workshops in writing and serves as an instructor with the Long Ridge Writer's Group.