Do You Ever Forget VIP Events?
Tuesday of this week was the first Tuesday in five months I didn’t attend a two-hour writing…
What Field Are You In?
My writing teacher’s teacher, Deena Metzger, advises writing in the field you are in. Musing on this idea…
Cultivating Space
Brené Brown, one of my favorite writers announced this week that she will be taking a fourteen-week sabbatical.…
Eavesdrop on Exchange with Fan
When I wrote Fear, Folly & Freud my wish was that it would help at least one person…
Finding Truth Through Revision
When I was a girl, every other week Mom and I would get dressed up, leave the farm.…
A Fantasy Revisited
Have you ever been disappointed when a fantasy you envisioned came true? When I was writing my debut…
Hint, Hint
During a 1979 Iowa State University social work class, I learned that social workers could be psychotherapists, and…
To Gratify Or Not
This week I continued revising my second memoir, the story of my year-long termination from Freudian psychoanalysis. I…
Why Did I Say That?
Last week we had our first extended family visit in over three years. Part of me worried if…
Facing Myself 4.9.2022
I want to be a grandmother who is fun and up for anything. But by mid-morning, the day…