Travel is a blend of romance, culture, and a much-needed break from the daily routine. It’s a way to see and feel a totally different scene. Europe is a world apart from my home in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, a pleasant but homogeneous place for the most part. That’s why I travel. To experience the diversity,Continue reading “The Beauty of Spain: Reflections on Travel and Life”
Category Archives: And the Memory Returns
Using Writing as a Pathway to Healing
I have found, over the last 16 years of running our Women’s Writing Circle, that writing has helped countless women heal from traumatic events, including myself. As Virginia Woolf once said about writing painful experiences, “Nothing has really happened until it has been described.” And by recording the trauma, the writer transforms into a survivor. WhenContinue reading “Using Writing as a Pathway to Healing”
Finding Light in Darkness: Writing and the Winter Solstice
When you embark on the writing life, you hold close a memory, that moment in time that reconnects you with who you are.
Energy and Positivity Along the Writer’s Way
“I have no energy.” She pondered the possibility that boredom and a lack of purpose in her life contributed to her malaise.
Remembering Our Mothers
Motherhood…the mystique, the boredom, the sacrifice, the contract in perpetuity, the life unexpected.
Portugal and The Map of Writing
Above the sea, the sky drapes its flawless blue mantle of time immemorial, beyond the reach of memory and with unperturbed grace. The corridor of light shines and beckons, but where does it lead? Perhaps, no probably, writing offers the clue, the map to reflection and contemplation.
The Complacent Traveler
A faithful companion on my travels is a little spiral-bound notebook where I jot down my thoughts.
In an Aging and Difficult World, How to Find Focus?
The body is fragile, and the mind is taxed to remember details, storylines, and even the simplest things that once came to mind without effort.
If You Don’t Write, Life Is Just One Thing After Another
We live in a world where too often people are glued to their screens, they’re not getting outside, taking a walk, just living, just observing, just listening to someone else. See that’s the joy of being a writer. All of that is part of your job description. And in the end, you’re making sense out of “one damn thing after another.”
Writing to Remember … and Move Forward
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” –Anaïs Nin
