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Hungry for the Sound of my own Music
This is one of my favorite blog posts from last year and the impetus for Opening The Creative Channel, my weekend workshop with Andrea Scher of Superhero Life. Last year David Bowie put out a new record, which is a big deal in the music industry. The man is...
True Stories Series: Meet Lisa Sadikman
"Writing is how I round out my world, it’s how I unstick myself from the mud and make it across the meadow." - Lisa Sadikman Readers, when I made a list of people I wanted to interview for this column, Lisa Sadikman quickly came to mind. She's been a Wild Writing...
What Keeps Me Awake at Night
I may have time to get to the Girl Scout store to get the new troupe numbers and Girl Scout USA insignia. I wonder if those jeans are worth patching? Is this middle aged spread or have I been eating too many nuts? Nuts are good, right? 229...
True Stories Series: Meet Andrea Scher
I'm starting a new section of my blog called The True Stories Series where I'll be interviewing artists + writers + hard working creative types - people I admire and respect and who I'd like you to know about. Today I'd like to introduce you to Andrea Scher of...
The Creamy Kung Foo of Writing True Stories
Writing about your real life is a tricky dance. Your life is your petri dish. You examine the things that happen, you make notes, you pay attention to small details and you consider whether you can unpack them to reveal something larger, something like a story....
Why We Tell Stories
Because when our children grow up we can no longer strap them into car seats, which means they’re free to roam the earth as they please, and which sometimes means they down 5 shots of vodka with their new college roommates even though they promised themselves that...
A Little Light, a Tree & a Breeze
Day after day, day after still day,The summer has begun to pass away... -from Summer's Elegy, by Howard Nemerov I can't be sure, but I think we've come to the part of the summer where we're tilting a little too heavily toward the fall. You can almost see September if...
Keep Coming Back
And so, after a couple of fairly unproductive days of writing - or - not writing - as the case was – days where I’d meant well, had made a little nest on the couch, surrounding myself with not only a pile of bills, but a list of writing assignments and essays I’d...
Suzy Was Here
“Come on Gal! Hit the ball! God dammit!” This is the sound of my 77-year-old Mother shouting at herself during her tennis lesson this morning. “No! No! No!” she screams as she slams the racquet into the ball. “Move it!” she shouts,...
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