Somedays I want simple food *a grilled cheese sandwich *tomato soup *grilled cheese and tomato soup together. just nuts, just grapes, simple foods. Someday I need only simple pleasures. The sun on my face, breeze in my nose, a walk–a long walk quiet a drive to just look at scenery Simple things don’t require complications …
Writing memoirs is the easiest writing you can do. You don’t need writing experience to write about stories of your past. Writing your stories makes you think of new memories all of the time. Soon you find you can’t stop coming up with stories. As you write, you practice writing. Writing practice makes writing easier …
What is your color story? Have you ever written a story about a color and how it affected you? I wrote about yellow in my memoir writing time. I used to get sick from the color of yellow when I was young. It sounded strange but when I posted my essay on a memoir writing …
The Internet in my area was down for three days. I haven’t been able to post to my blog. I haven’t been able to respond to my coaching clients. I haven’t been able to surf the net — my nervous habit “fix.” It’s awful to be dependent on technology when it has control of you. …
Most people worry about writer’s block. I don’t believe in writer’s block. Doing writing practice knocked that out of me long ago. I’ve learned to sit down and just start writing. It took some time because I couldn’t write at the keyboard at first. I had to put the words on paper to make them …
Know what’s really tough? Having people you love grow old and sick. That’s part of life, I know. I’m a mortician’s daughter. Life and death have been a regular part of my life since birth. That doesn’t take the sting out of witnessing the process of people you love getting closer to the end of …
Do you remember the Y2K phenomenon when so many people thought the world would end? Now we are one month away from being seven years into the new Millennium. It’s not the technology that we have to worry about so much anymore as major areas of unrest in the world like Iraq, Iran, North Korea. …
