poetry wednesday : it might have been otherwise
I flew home from San Diego on Sunday after two amazing engagements there–a speech to the California Association for the Education of Young Children and a workshop that Jane LaFazio and I created, combining writing and art-making about grief. Full, intense, wonderfully tiring days. Then up early in pouring rain …
Not self-help, but soul-help.
"Damn, girl. You write good." -Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News My newest book, LIFE IS A VERB, is now available! My next book, Creative is a Verb: 37 Days to Unleash Your Inner Artist, is coming out in the Summer of 2010 and outlines Six Creative Commitments for living life …
Channel your inner halfathoner.
It's finally here, the official 2009 Life is a Verb Flying Pig Half – Marathon Team T-shirt! Now available for sale in the 37days shop, I hope you'll take a look! Perhaps wearing this happy shirt will inspire you to join us for the May 2, 2010, half-marathon in Cincinnati …
Guide your tweenbot to safety
Broken, Unbroken The lonely stand in dark corners of their hearts. I have seen them in cities, and in my own neighborhood, nor could I touch them with the magic that they crave to be unbroken. Then, I myself, lonely, said hello to good fortune. Someone came along and lingered …
Day Six, we conquer ourselves
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary Day six is a wonderful day. It's a day full of possibility and can. Run! Wake up! Make art! Journal! Turn off the TV! Look out the window of your RV and think about nothing in particular! Smile! Really …
Inhabit your dream
I have a framed watercolor on one of the shelves in my office. I’ve had it for years, moving it from home to new home, from office to new office. It has a quote from the Spanish writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño (Life is a …
Join me in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio!
Soon I’ll travel to Cleveland and Canton in Ohio for several Life is a Verb events – I hope to see you there!NOVEMBER 5th – CANTON4-7pmI’ll be reading and signing books at the 2nd April Galerie, 324 Cleveland Ave. NW, Canton, Ohio, thanks to the efforts of Jylene Henning, a …
Voice your hops and drems
Yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Tess begged to use my laptop. I understand the attraction, the tiny white keys flat and inviting, a world of blank screen to fill. I opened Word for her and walked away because she told me what she was writing was private. A little while later, I …
We are left with love
I love, LOVE this interview Sarah Morgan did with me. About fear and turning points and the meaning of life. Thanks, Sarah, for your great questions.
Book tour news–and an announcement
It’s no secret that I’m loving this book tour, designed, hosted, attended by you. What an incredible, insane pleasure to meet people who have been reading 37days for a week or for years, or artists who contributed the beauty that graces the pages of Life is a Verb, or people …
