Let me read to you.
I have so loved traveling around this fine land of ours to read from Life is a Verb. So loved it. All my incredible hosts, all the people who came out so I could meet them and learn from them and laugh with them. So special to me. Amazing and …
Write your irresistible obituary as prelude to living it.
Living an irresistible obituary might be easier if you name it, own it, live into it. Readers are writing and sending in their "irresistible obituaries" and you can read them here. If you'd like to send yours, you can email it (with a photo if you'd like) to patti AT …
Sit with truth in the asparagus section
Sometimes the truth you need to see comes in the asparagus section. I was speed shopping. Six items: Chick peas. Asparagus. Lemons. Avocado. Cheerios. Peanut Butter. As I approached the asparagus, a woman I know from a writing group here in town was coming in the store. I don't know …
All I want for my birthday is a paper quilt.
I love quilts. Love, love, love them. There is an old one in my closet, now sheer as a piece of phyllo, whose straight lines served as roads for many Matchbox cars in my childhood. There is the one my mother made me, her first. And many more. I am …
May I suggest this is the best part of your life?
Inside you know what's yours to finally say. I suggest to you this is the best part of your life. – Susan Werner Soon, I will wake up 50. I'm not focused on 50 because I dread it, no. I'm focused on it because for years I have said to …
Somewhere, she’s getting a kick out of the attention…
That awesome obituary I posted for a woman named Nancy Lee Hixson? Her son, Chris Hixson, wrote me about it. (Scroll down bottom of the comments on that post and you'll find his note.) Here's what he had to say:My mother has been popping up around the web this week, …
Live an Irresistible Obituary
Chapter 9 of Life is a Verb includes a section entitled "Live an Irresistible Obituary." Today I found out exactly what that means, when my friends Betsy Hilt and Joan Eisenstodt pointed me to an obituary from the Cleveland newspaper for a woman named Nancy Lee Hixson. That's what I'm …
Seeing again.
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no …
Freedom is a verb.
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. -Gerard K. O'Neill
Global barn raising!
I am delighted that the story of the art in Life is a Verb–and some of the artwork itself–is featured on the wonderful blog, Wandering Educators, this month! Enjoy the show! And if you're interested in submitting art for my next book in September, I'd love that! Let me know …
