17 Feb, 2014

Dump those Qualifiers and Modifiers

2021-01-03T17:28:41-06:00February 17th, 2014|Tags: |

One insight from  Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones has already affected how I write. Here it is: "In the early seventies there was a study done on women and language [...]

5 Feb, 2014

Serenity at the VCCA

2021-01-03T17:28:43-06:00February 5th, 2014|Tags: |

Oh, the serenity of a residency at the VCCA! I've returned to my everyday life in Chicago, and already VCCA's calm and focused atmosphere seems elusive. So I thought I'd [...]

1 Oct, 2013

The Gift of Morning Pages

2021-01-03T17:29:01-06:00October 1st, 2013|Tags: |

Writing Morning Pages has become an important daily ritual for me ever since I read Julia Cameron's book The Right to Write. That book was so transformative for me in [...]

14 Jun, 2013

Create: Chainmaille Bracelets

2021-01-03T17:29:10-06:00June 14th, 2013|Tags: |

The other day I picked up my son from his summer internship at Blue Buddha, one of the largest distributors of chainmaille supplies, which happens to be here in Chicago. [...]

12 Jun, 2013

How a Master Commenter Does It

2021-01-03T17:29:11-06:00June 12th, 2013|Tags: |

Today is guest blogger day at the Blogathon, and I am happy to be hosting William Kendall. Regular readers will recognize him as this blog's most steadfast commenter. His dedication to [...]

8 Mar, 2013

The Writing on the Wall

2021-08-01T00:15:22-05:00March 8th, 2013|Tags: , |

"Mom vandalized the wall!" - that was my son's first reaction upon seeing my word of the year written on our living room wall. "Hey, there's a word on the wall!" [...]

8 Feb, 2013

A Blog Thank You

2021-08-01T01:05:54-05:00February 8th, 2013|Tags: , |

Article in the French Jewish magazine Tenou'a featuring the same art work by Michael Thompson I featured last May. Coming on the heels of my damp review of hosting [...]

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