12Dec
11Dec
Permission Unleashed
We begin each retreat day by pulling a card. No, we're not playing blackjack in Vegas ... a card as in oracle card, those decks of Sacred Rebels or Hawaiian wisdom or any myriad of other cards with soul-feeding artwork and text that invite us...
10Dec
Wisdom in Being Carsick
There is nothing like a week with fierce and knowing women to dredge the dark weighty corners of life, those spaces overlooked and forgotten, but oozing despair and confusion into an otherwise brilliant space. Here is something I learned this week. I was a kid who...
09Dec
Choice Rewired
I am on virtual retreat this week, and what a week it has been! Only Day Four and a lifetime has been lived, inside and out: from rainstorm to windstorm to snowstorm (and up to 11 C by Saturday again), and inside, a tempest of...
11Jun
In The Dirt
I have been up to it in dirt : the kind that grows, the stuff that clogs. But planting a garden can yield some good things, both to eat and to improve your writing.
10May
Wake Up and Smell the Apples:
Lessons from a Mother's Day in IsolationThe calendar says Mother’s Day. This year for me, it’s Apple Pie day.I’ve always known what apple pie was. It’s only recently that I’ve allowed that I didn’t know it as well as I could. The wonderful motherly women...
13Apr
Tidying Your Creative Nest
Using the space of isolation to clear the workspace cobwebsMy indoor 'hammock', also known as my iso-nest, is part of my reframe to turn isolation into creative space during the Covid pandemicThis new normal of being home all the time has me isolation nesting like...
05Feb
Releasing the Story Within
If you let out that breath you would change the world. A professor said this to my son, but he could have been talking to me. Maybe to you, too. As a writer I spend a lot of time managing the swirling thoughts and phrases...
27Nov
Five Ways to Find Time to Write
A journal, a seat and a view can become an instant writing spaceI once promised my muse I could teach him to play Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the piano: five notes in five minutes. We will test that theory, when he makes the time...
19Nov