Living in Pandemic Time

by | Apr 30, 2020 | Life, Seasons, Time, Work, Writing, writing journey

We’ve heard of kairos time and chronos time. Maybe, tongue in cheek, now we have “pandemic time”. Indeed, how do we define time during a pandemic? There is the slow, thick movement of monotonous days at home during quarantines. Simultaneously, there is the sense of...

Drawn From a Deep Well

by | Jan 7, 2020 | Essays, Writers, Writing, writing journey

I am writing about writing in my piece just published at The Perennial Gen! It was actually an essay I wrote for the Breathe Writer’s conference– it was one of two winning essays that was published in their journal, Exhale.  *** Writing often feels like I...

Treasures from the Tree Maker

by | Nov 1, 2019 | Beauty, Growth, Writing, writing journey

  Abscission (noun)* the act of cutting off; sudden termination. Botany. the normal separation of flowers, fruit, and leaves from plants. The Tree From a place deep within itself, the autumn tree bursts forth in glorious color, and shows a different face of its...

Long Night of Struggle (my post at TCW)

by | Sep 26, 2019 | Quotes, Writers, Writing

“It is clear we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. We can be sure of very little, but the need to court...

Three Poetry Contests

by | Sep 13, 2019 | Poetry, Writers, Writing, writing journey

Friends, I wanted to bring to your attention three poetry contests: Dignity not Detention – A prize of $500 and publication in Poetry International will be given for a single poem written for refugees currently being detained pending their hearings. (A similar...

Announcement!

by | Aug 29, 2019 | Writers, Writing

I have an exciting announcement: I will be joining Lisa Deam at The Contemplative Writer this year!  Each week, I will be contributing to the Friday Favorites post, and I will be contributing a post or article each month. I hope you’ll join me there– and...

Article at Redbud Post

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Writing

Read my article at the Redbud Post…. You Rock, Abigail Once upon a time, there was a woman whose name was Abigail. Abigail not only was beautiful, but also very wise. Abigail was the apple of her parents’ eyes. They delighted to watch her grow in grace and...