How do our perceptions offer insight into who we are and our place in the world? And what about perceptions others have of us?
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Myths and Writing as a Vision Quest
If I write about it, the storyline emerges. Writing is a vision quest, after all, an unfolding of myths.
The One True Desire
While writing might feel painful at times, the absence of exploring long-buried feelings becomes an obstacle to knowing ourselves and others.
The Many Benefits of Writing
“It’s not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
A Writer Explores Her “Backyard”
I’m always looking for new experiences and encounters. Or, selfishly, I’m looking to learn more about me, who I am. Since I’m on hiatus from international travel, I’ve been exploring my “backyard,” so to speak. I live in Pennsylvania. Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland are all within easy driving distance. I suppose it’s not whereContinue reading “A Writer Explores Her “Backyard””
Summer’s Journey for the Writer Waits
As light lengthens past nine at night, a writer feels braver. Summer offers a richer and truer expression of relaxation and reflection.
Writing To Tell Your Story
As always, I remain excited about this time in publishing, one that affords the hard-working and dedicated writer a variety of choices and financial options to tell her story.
The Power of Journaling
And so … her memory returns, as do her words, here along the writer’s way. In December, 2012, blogger and author Kathy Pooler wrote about the power of journaling for our Women’s Writing Circle. A few weeks later, she would come to suburban Philadelphia and teach a workshop on journaling.
A Writer Offers a History Lesson
After all, the truth begins with the truth.
The Woman with Red Fingernails
An aspiring blogger and mother with two grown daughters, she was just beginning to revel in her newfound independence. Now was her time. As she pushed her bicycle home on the war-torn streets of Bucha, it was another day in the life of everywoman. Her dream to become a make-up artist energized her. As sheContinue reading “The Woman with Red Fingernails”