Memorial Day Re-visited
Every year Memorial Day gets a little easier. My father died on this day, May 31st, seven years ago. He would have been an old man by now. He would have been miserable. He couldn’t stand it that his 86...
View ArticleThe Breaking Point: An invitiation to share your stories
When you record your pain on the page and people read it…something happens. You tap into something that is bigger than your pain. Bigger than pain itself. You are in total truth and by being there…you...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #1
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #2
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #3
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #6
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #7
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #10
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleLong Ago: Community Entry #10
As you may know, I am spending a few months in the dormancy of winter, working on a book. And, like last year at this time, I am offering my blog to you. Last year we looked into our Breaking Points …...
View ArticleLong Ago: Community Entry #13
As you may know, I am spending a few months in the dormancy of winter, working on a book. And, like last year at this time, I am offering my blog to you. Last year we looked into our Breaking Points …...
View ArticleCreativity Can be your Lifeline
Come with me on an adventure of a lifetime! Haven Retreats in Montana: August 7th-11th (Now Booking) September 4th-8th (Now Booking) September 18th-22nd (Now Booking) Thank you to Stacey Gualandi at...
View Article9/11– The Survivor Tree
As featured on the front page of the Huffington Post 50 on 9/11/13 I’ll admit it: I have been afraid to go to Ground Zero. Since 9/11/01 I’ve probably been to New York City ten times. I have no excuse...
View ArticleFinding Your Voice: The 2017 Haven Winter Blog Series
Now booking 2017 Haven Writing Retreats! Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats to show the support that writers need to have for one another,...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Series Blog Series #3: Finding your Voice
I use the phrase Find Your Voice often, and people often say to me that they have finally found their Voice (I especially love when that happens at Haven Writing Retreats!)…but what does it really...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #4: Finding your Voice
As a special Valentine’s Day gift to yourself, listen to the New York Times and WBUR Modern Love Podcast series! It is full of stories of love, its messiness and sometimes resolve, its bravery and...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #5: Finding your Voice
Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats both to show the support that writers need to have for one another, to give myself the sacred dormancy of...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #6: Finding your Voice
The truth is that it’s actually not possible for anyone to have your voice, even if they try. At Haven Writing Retreats, we work off of the same prompts in our morning classes, and we all get to see...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #7: Finding your Voice
Writing holds me together and always has. I have said many times, “Don’t wait for the rug to get ripped out from underneath you to find your passions. When I went through re-invention 101, I’m...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #8: Finding your Voice
Please consider opening to the fact that YOU DO have a voice, and it is your own. Whether in your writing, speaking, thinking, feeling. And it is quite possibly simply waiting for you to give...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #9: Finding your Voice
Being passionate for our safety first is our bottom line non-negotiable. Maybe then, pain wouldn’t have to be gain. And walls would become doors, and pain would become passion and possibility. And...
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