CreativityFinding Your VoiceJuly 27, 2021One of the hardest and yet most rewarding parts of being a writer is discovering and developing your voice. In…
CreativityWe Just Wasted Time – 12 Steps to Doing Creative Work while ParentingAugust 19, 2019I have 4 kids from teen to 5 years. My husband works 7 days a week these days. I already…
CreativityGo wordless.April 30, 2019I’ve started writing something new. In the morning, I write before doing anything else. I try to do this every…
CreativityYay Boo: The Highs and LowsMarch 21, 2019No mud, no lotus. The oscillating wave of life with peaks and valleys, comprised of our yay moments and our…
CreativityGoing Fallow – When Taking a Break CreatesMarch 21, 2019If you’re a creative, you know this feeling; the feeling of playing catch up, the feeling that you have to…
CreativityScrapbooks and RevisionJanuary 17, 2019I once took a writing workshop with Margaret Atwood. I was fairly new to writing stories, and over the moon…
CreativityReturn and Get itJanuary 17, 2019Sankofa – “return and get it” / “learn from the past” Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean proverb There are a number of…
CreativityWriting in the Uninspired LifeJuly 16, 2018I have four children. They are 16, 12, 7, and 4. I live in a country town in the Central…
CreativityThrowing Out MaterialFebruary 19, 2018One of my favorite quotes on writing, about the importance of throwing out material, comes from Annie Dillard’s book, The…
Wisdom + WellnessLove Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the MysticsFebruary 13, 2018Mira has offered herself to her Lord. The single lotus will swallow you whole. – From “Mira the Bee” For…