Moving past the comma.
I'm celebrating the 6th anniversary of 37days this month with a few guest posts. This one is by Joshua Durst, a man I met in Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville one December day as I was there signing books. Malaprop's is so good to local authors and they ask many of …
A letter to my son.
I'm celebrating the 6th anniversary of 37days this week with a few guest posts. This one is by Robin Pitts, a woman I met in Cleveland, Ohio, when I was there to speak at Ursuline College a few years ago. A mother's love: A predeployment letter to my son, a …
strike a spark and form a circle…
I'm celebrating the 6th anniversary of 37days this week with a few guest posts. This one is by the wonderful Viv McWaters from Australia. Gathering, again Powerful fun and learning merge -?Opens hearts and minds. Haiku, Applied Improv Conference, Banff 2007 There’s something quite magical about stepping onto …
Live so the poems can find you.
I'm celebrating the 6th anniversary of 37days this week with a few guest posts. This one is by writer Joanna Paterson from Scotland, whose accent I deeply yearn for. Live so the poems can find you I’ve learned a lot from 37days. Some big ahas, some quiet moments, some deep, …
meet you part-way.
A 6th blogiversary guest post by one of my favorite writers, Kathryn Ruth Schuth. A Slow-Motion Conversation: Let's Meet Part-way There If I could teach you how to putOn your shirt right side out whenYou’ve picked it up from the pile right side inYou would know so much more About …
You are loved.
i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's …
have a beginner’s mind.
"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." -Rainer Maria Rilke I am walking into 2011 without resolutions, without expectations, without a need to know. On New Year's Day, I'm always reminded of something John Lithgow said about humans as Professor Dick Solomon in …
throw your head back and laugh.
I'm participating in a 31-day blogging challenge called reverb10, responding to writing prompts that are designed to elicit reflections on 2010, and hopes for 2011. You can find out more about it here. I am challenging myself to respond to each prompt in 15 minutes or less. Today's challenge: Photo …
happy birthday, daddy.
Reposted every Christmas Day in honor of my daddy's birthday and in his memory. Monogram your pancakes “Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And …
