how to start writing again.
(If you can’t see the video, click here) Magic happens when I start talking with Jen Louden and Susan Piver. Pure magic. Their perspectives and way of being in the world pop open whole new avenues of moving forward for me. That’s just one reason I’m glad to be teaching …
mindful monday.
It is house-clearing time. Getting rid of physical and mental lint. I may have mentioned that once or three dozen times. For example, I found the top of my desk this week. It is also a time for pretty, calm, oasis-making. Many of you have done this years ago, and …
thinking thursday. on friday.
[mind] Do you need some encouragement? A fire lit under you? A nudge? Here are 5 manifestos for life that might do the trick. I just love the very idea of this blog: Typo of the Day for Librarians. Being an American literature student in college and graduate school, this …
walk with fear, hold hands with it, make peace with it.
I know one thing for sure: I love writing. And what I’ve learned this year is that I also love teaching about writing. And I love teaching about writing with two fabulous women, both NY Times best-selling authors, both beautiful souls: Jen Louden and Susan Piver. When Jen’s big heart …
loss freed me and saved my life.
I was thrilled to be invited to talk today with Jen Louden about savoring and serving. You'll find that interview here. Here's an excerpt, an answer to one of Jen's delicious questions: Loss freed me and saved my life. It gave me my real voice, not just my “professional” voice, …
six years ago today.
Six years ago today, Hurricane Katrina hit. Here's what I wrote then. Consider yourself part of the solution Replace "they" with "we" with "I" We can do better.
mindful monday.
(I want bedroom walls the color of these eggs that Tess found.) Yes, boxes are being filled with things I no longer need to carry around in this life with me. Bookshelves are being purged. Closets are emptied and choices made on what goes back in. I'm looking at paint …
thinking thursday.
[mind] I love the work David Robinson and I do together in our company, The Circle Project. We've started posting on our blog every Tuesday and Thursday, as a way of corralling what we're thinking about, and what we're working on. I hope you'll join us for conversations about …
poetry wednesday : rest in the grace of the world
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the …
