* Writing Light – capturing spiritual experience on paper

In which I am Interviewed by Emelia Sam for her beautiful PIQUE podcast series. PIQUE is a *Peek* in on an intimate, thought-provoking conversation with some of the most interesting, [...]

In January of 2016, I wasn’t writing much. I was reading one very long document which I’d written – one day at a time, for 365 days. So much happens in a year – and [...]

I arrived at my mother’s apartment ready to write. As I stepped through the door, I was greeted by a small black feather, lying on the hardwood floor. I dug right in – thinking I [...]

I remember reading – or perhaps writing – that healing comes in waves, or rather, in spirals. It’s the rare healing that happens all at once – we tender-hearted humans [...]

When I discovered Annie Dillard’s, The Writing Life (in my thirties) I read it three times in a row, scribbling many passages into my notebook, one of which I taped to the wall of my [...]

So Im trying to write (and to live) in this new way and it’s hard. A few months ago, I started to notice  that I was summarizing everything that happened to me. I would wake from a dream and [...]

Each summer, I try something new to spark my creative flow. Last year, I attended a weeklong writing workshop on Star Island, New Hampshire. This year, I attended the Creative Joy Retreat with [...]

(I do know there is a typo in the title. I kinda like it. It reminds me what it was like to let this book be finally ‘finished’ – I’m certain there are places where it [...]

Today, in the bathtub at 4:45 am, I thought: I don’t want to write that way anymore. I don’t want to write in the preachy, teachy style that I adopt when I think I am supposed to be [...]

  I came to my desk and found a pile of file folders stacked there, after yesterday’s closet and cabinet purge: The novel I never finished, called Faith The memoir that sits, ignored [...]