For many memoirists, writing is a heavy yet healing journey. They are willing to look back, for they know that the unexamined life isn’t worth living. They understand that pain, hardship, and loss often come with something else: the realization that their story is now one they can live with and fully embrace. Hopefully, theContinue reading “Healing Through Memoir: The Power of Writing”
Category Archives: grief and writing as a way of healing
Exploring Fear and Freedom in Writing
I am the first to admit there are subjects I might want to write about, but haven’t. I rarely write about politics because it’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, and today’s worries will soon be behind us. I avoid writing about old age. Many social media and blog posts focus on illness, surgeries, or theContinue reading “Exploring Fear and Freedom in Writing”
Finding Comfort in Winter and Time
Only God knows. There is comfort in that. These are the things that come with time.
Memorable Halloween Moments: Crafting Your Story
Memory, when combined with happiness and imagination, infused Halloween in years to come with magic and otherworldliness, apart from day-to-day reality.
Birthdays and Beginning Again
The writing always the writing, winding its way into my life, my compass of contemplation and reflection, and hope to gather in the moment through the written word before it’s gone.
Cherishing Memories Through Writing
Yellow roses in a cream-colored Lenox vase grace my kitchen table. Thirty-seven years ago, John brought me a dozen yellow roses when our younger son, Daniel, was born. He entered my hospital room wearing turquoise-tinted aviator sunglasses. “Here’s looking at you, kid,” he said, handing me the flowers. The cool hospital room, with its fluorescentContinue reading “Cherishing Memories Through Writing”
December’s Mysteries and Dreams
It’s December. There’s a mystery to the season. As Mary Oliver writes in her poem, “Mysteries, Yes”: “Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.”
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.
Writing and Unlocking Grief
Someone will write about the death of a child, a spouse, a parent, a beloved dog and when they read their work to a group of empathetic listeners, it is as if the weight has begun to lift.
