Most of us are walking around with big doses of anxiety, keeping us from our desired lives. This might be true in general, but I'm referring to our emotional re... Read More...
Holidays! Holidaze. (LOL. Good one.)
First, let me remind you about the Write Without the Fight Office Party this week - Tuesday, Dec 22nd, 5-7pm PT. Hope yo... Read More...
We are nearing the end of this very bad, horrible, terrible, no-good year. And in the end, what do we have to show for it? We still have a pandemic threatening... Read More...
Doesn't matter if you're published, produced or award-winning, creativity comes with a side order of doubt.
Doubt
I recently read that Bono, of U2 fame, had w... Read More...
I'm everything all at once. Rushed, focused, engaged - even as I'm also - slow, preoccupied, disengaged. Uncertainty is part of everything in our lives right no... Read More...
This week, we gathered on Zoom, the new warm, welcoming place to gather with friends. These friends were writer-friends, the best kind. And the topic was dream ... Read More...
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a solitary sport. But, many of the people I talk with lately cannot get any alon... Read More...
2020 has not become what I thought it would. I thought - after losing my dogs, my dad, my father-in-law, going through an audit and breaking my arm in 2019 - th... Read More...
When I see a post like this, I try to help. This is my area of expertise, afterall.
So, first, I'm certain, this person's experience is not unique. "Th... Read More...
I'm in love with this quote:
"Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma ... Read More...