Monthly Archives: December 2024

As we move into a new year, a lovely poem to light our way: Barterby Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,Soaring fire that sways and singsAnd children’s faces looking upHolding … Continue reading →

A cornucopia of writing advice to inspire and embolden us all today: “Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers arelike dancers, like athletes. … Continue reading →

Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heartAnd try to love the questions themselves.Live the questions now.– Ranier Maria Rilke

“Find what gave you the emotion. Then write it down, making it clear so the reader will see it, too, and have the same feeling that you had.”Ernest Hemingway Ernest makes it sound simple, but it’s not easy! Building telling … Continue reading →

A gathering of encouraging insights and ideas to move and motivate us today: “Everything begins with belief.”   Norman Cousins “Seize the day. Put no trust in the morrow.”   Horace “Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by horse-power … Continue reading →

Wishing you and yours all the blessings of the winter season as we move toward the light! Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. … Continue reading →

Nothing succeeds like success – success primes the pump for more successes. Setting yourself up for small wins can help ensure that you’ll enjoy a big win. After a win, you practice harder than after a loss. Your self-confidence goes … Continue reading →

Be bigger than your fears.”Dorothy December 20 is my mom Dorothy’s birthday; she passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2004. Since then, my beautiful sister Stephanie and I came up with the idea of celebrating her birthday by going to … Continue reading →

“I’ve been teaching writing for a long time and I’ve looked through a lot of writing books. They seem just ordinary to me. There’s nothing about the way they make the case or their arguments, their thoughts, that seem compelling … Continue reading →

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrow is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our … Continue reading →