We can all use more love in our lives, that’s for sure, and February is a perfect month to express our love to others. Sometimes writing “you’re special to me” doesn’t feel like it gets to the heart of what I want to say. If you’ve ever thought that, here’s a workshop to inspire you […]
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As a child of the 60s, decked-out in my bell-bottoms, peace-symbol shirt and dangling love-beads, I dreamed about being creatively me. In my mind, creativity and freedom held hands and made a fist at the establishment—anyone over 40.  Looking at 40 from the other side, I realize that I didn’t know what I didn’t
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I’m really looking forward to presenting my most popular class of 2019 called Writing the Stories of Your Life. I had planned to offer this Story Workshop in the Spring of 2020, but then Covid hit. (sound familiar?) Luckily, our 2021 lets-make-lemonaide-out-of-lemons attitude presented a silver lining. So in March, you can experience the benefits of
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Happy stories are fun to think about and vital to tell. Using an ocean theme, I call them “Dolphin Stories.” If you’ve ever stood on the deck of a boat on the ocean when all of a sudden a pod of dolphins flank your path—you know how these magical creatures exude joy. When life gets
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I think I know why more of us don’t write the stories of our lives. We feel like a small creature swimming in the ocean of our experiences. They feel WHALE-ish: BIG. MASSIVE. TOO MUCH. The dilemma is that there is too much to count. In frustration, we put away the idea of writing anything
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What did kids do for fun in the summer before computers? Last week, Gloria read a story from her childhood during our writing class. It was so entertaining, I wanted to share with you: Foiled Entrepreneurs by Gloria There wasn’t a lot to do on that hot sticky summer morning. We had just moved from
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