When you have competing interests, what wins?
Photo Credit: verchmarco Flickr via Compfight cc For about three months now, several days a week the first thing I …
Category Archives: Inspiration
Look to childhood for the answers
Photo Credit: wuestenigel Flickr via Compfight cc What did you enjoy doing when you were a little kid? I loved …
Are you a “Straddler”?
This is my dad. He’s probably 11 or 12, which would make it right around 1955. He’s having fun in …
Admiration, or envy? You decide
We all look at others. Figuratively, we look at what people are wearing, their hair, their makeup, the way they …
Generating ideas for memoir
Photo Credit: MarkGregory007 Flickr via Compfight cc I’m teaching a generative memoir workshop at The Loft Literary Center on Saturday …
Celebrating young writers and writers/readers of all ages
The best part of the Deep Valley Book Festival, I thought, was seeing the many young writers and illustrators who …
The inaugural memoir/yoga workshop
Just look at this space. It was perfect for writing and yoga. I spent the weekend of Sept. 28-30 here, …
Why I write, Part I
I saw memoirist extraordinaire Patricia Hampl on Sept. 28 at Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais. How lucky for me …
Images from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
When I was in Washington, D.C., in August for a conference, I took some time to visit the National Museum …
Writing fails and writing successes
Major props to Cat H. Bradley for this idea 🙂 Yes, we fail at many things in our daily lives. …
