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.”
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A Writing Group Prompts Autumn Memories
I can go days without writing but knowing that my writing group date is approaching always inspires me to work on something new.
The Complacent Traveler
A faithful companion on my travels is a little spiral-bound notebook where I jot down my thoughts.
This Place Called Home
Last week, I drove back to the old neighborhood where I grew up, where my parents lived across the street from a military academy, where I met my future husband. In the place of a once stately house where the head of the school lived, a skeletal structure under construction with a three-car garage juttedContinue reading “This Place Called Home”
The Motherhood Contract
So, what if I sound just like a million other proud moms? This is who I am. A mom who holds close to her heart that “contract in perpetuity” she made so long ago.
The Many Benefits of Writing
“It’s not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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
Life’s Small Triumphs at Summer’s End
In difficult times it becomes hard not to feel overwhelmed which makes relishing life’s little triumphs sweeter.
