Shout-out to 10,000 year old friends
The best thing to come out of the bad old days are the good people who went through them with you
My Writing
Winning the game of life over here
I’ve been working on a followup piece about the Major Life Event I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, and I was hoping to share it with you this weekend but I can’t because it’s not done yet. There…
How to keep writing through a very hard time
I’m in the thick of a Major Life Event. I’m not going to say too much about it because I don’t know yet how much I want to share and, anyway, that event is not the point of this piece.…
You’re dead to me and I’m ok with that
I did not like the “listening to our ancestors” exercise. I gave it a shot. I crossed my legs on the yoga mat, closed my eyes and took three deep breaths along with the other writing retreat participants. But my…
Have you met my latest lover?
I’m on a romantic holiday, in the Italian countryside, no less. My love nest is a sixteenth-century villa nestled in a tiny hilltop hamlet in the Le Marche region, whose undulating landscape is all sloping striped vineyards and spire-topped peaks, framed by…
Coax your stories forth with deep listening
This summer I spent a week at the beautiful Omega Institute, a holistic center for personal growth in New York’s Hudson Valley. My days started with a three-shot latte and some journaling under a willow tree on the shore of…