Rarely does an opportunity come along that just makes me giddy with excitement. So when Suz and Laura from Bay City Rollers Fan Events reached out and asked me to be a guest DJ on their weekly radio show on May 12th, I jumped at the chance. And then I had to decide on ten…
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Lost Lake Writers Retreat
Having finished the first draft of a novel this summer, I promised myself my reward would be a weekend getaway. On a whim I searched for writer’s retreats in Michigan and found the Lost Lake Writers Retreat. It was the perfect way to nurture my writing soul. The Lost Lake Writers Retreat is presented annually…
Writing the Sly Silence Within
Working on a mindfulness certification, the one practice that pulls me forward is following the word. That is, following the words that appear in my head as I’m meditating. I follow, realize I’m following, and return to breathing. I do the same thing when writing. This practice developed by reading Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg…
This Voraciousness
(A journal excerpt) This voraciousness is about the insatiable quest for knowledge, the need to know more to learn more to experience more. Though not to experience – experience chews up time. Learn and move on to the next thing, learn more, read more, more, more. This voraciousness is a stumbling block, a thing that…
Be / Learn / Know
All Earth bound, tethered down Souls All flying inside the mind of One, All of You, friends unrecognized and shying away from discovery by repenting treacherous discoveries to be named at a later date. All of us sleeping, and all of us waking using metaphor and symbol, using words, pictures, and songs. All of…
Feeling My Age
I’m not too sure when it started, but recently I’ve been feeling my age. Grey Hair My hair started to truly “go grey” ten or eleven years ago in my forties. There had been strands of grey all along, but I really started to notice the changes then. I started coloring my hair. Sometimes the color…