Writing is my #BAE
Last year, I took three months off writing. It was a trial-separation. Writing had occupied my mind and life for the last fifteen years and, when I finished my latest novel last year, I was exhausted. I took a break…
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Less Scrolling. More Showing Up
Social media are great for developing community, but for true belonging, real connection and real empathy require meeting real people in a real space in a real time. Brené Brown Braving the Wilderness Chapter Six: Hold Hands. With Strangers.…
Write Your Own Permission Slip
We all have a story promise in us. Something sown deep within that seeks to be released. Perhaps some of you have that lump in your throat, that heart race, that visceral response in your body that tells you it’s…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 92: Get Messy
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 92: Get Messy Why, when we know that there’s no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that…
One Hundred Day Challenge: Day 26
Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility. For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person…