What Does Talent Mean?
I grew up thinking that if you were talented, learning would be easy. I carried this mistaken…
Is This A Coincidence?
Is this a coincidence? On Saturday, as you are reading this, I will be meeting Sullivan, my first…
Where Do You Find the Creative Process?
Last Saturday I attended a Creative Day, an online event organized by one of my favorite organizations. The…
An Origin Story
Nowadays, I am a writer, a wife, sister, mother, grandmother, and a great-grandmother, but when the internal desire…
Doomed Trying To Find Completion
Toe stretching isn’t the most thrilling activity even when one is totally focused. Remember when I promised a…
Confronting limitations & imperfections
I’m still thinking about endings. This week I am obsessed with going through the twelve chapters of my…
Cartoon Unconscious & Conscious Modes
Sigmund Freud proposed that our psyche was a tiered structure. Today’s scientists know the unconscious is not a…
When You Get To The End
Endings tend to be difficult for me so it’s no surprise that the last chapter of my second…
Be Sure & Ask Someone For Help
Writing my second memoir has, up until now, gone pretty smoothly. Sure there were struggles along the way,…