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Conflict Resolution and My Ideal Saturday Morning
Writing about anything but yesterday’s tragedy in Newton, Conn, feels insensitive. But to cope with horrors, ordinary or extraordinary, I need to write. Through any endeavor, creative and artistic, we...
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Les Mis
Yesterday I saw Les Misérables. This is my guilty pleasure. I love the musical. I have always loved it. Loved Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman and their vulnerability. I loved that they let themselves...
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the event of a thread
The event of a thread is made up of many crossings of the near at hand and the far away: it is a body crossing space, is a writer’s hand crossing a sheet of paper, is a voice crossing a room in a paper...
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What my IWWG (International Women’s Writing Guild) workshop means to me
I just got great news. I’m going to be teaching at the International Women’s Writing Guild summer conference at Drew University. I’m going to lead a workshop on Dangerous Writing: Your Spiritual...
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Freelance work
I am working on a very short novel. I am working on my business. I am working on myself. I wonder if any of these things will work out. I believe that I already have everything I need. I try to know,...
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Peter and the Starcatcher
When our daughters were little, they always wanted to hear a bedNIGHT story. Of course, they meant a bedTIME story but I dared not correct them. It was one of their charming childhood malapropisms....
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I blog about happiness and honesty
When I started blogging, I had four blogs: My Beautiful New York, my NYC people and places Running Aground, my goal to run a 5K the Connected Life, getting my kids off technology A Church A Day, on...
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A Little More
Last night we saw A Little More Than You Wanted To Spend, a funny, sad one-man show with and by Chris Clavelli about the death of his 6-year old son Jess. This sucks. I mean the play is awesome, but...
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a weekend in Connecticut
I took a walk by myself, feeling grateful for friends, for family, for Chris. I snapped some pics. Sometimes, I feel a loneliness in my marriage. Sometimes, my husband’s Parkinson’s Disease reveals...
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What To Do With My Free Time: A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma
I thought when I left my job more than six months ago, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. Um, not so much. As my friend, Linda B. said, “Looks like you’re having fun!” Work is overrated. A regular...
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Awesome writing circle
Magic happens when people write together and then read what they’ve written. I know it sounds corny but it’s true. Take the raw materials from your life, weave a story, and experience the alchemy. In...
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We Have To Share
This year I learned to share. And it’s been awesome. I shared cars and bikes. I shared office space and jobs. I subbed as a videographer for a friend on maternity leave and as a middle school English...
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Tending Twilight
the day darkens. i get too tired. i find the housework oppressive. i ask for help, then don’t want it. like in the decluttering. i don’t know why it bothered me. what to do with the tapes from my old...
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Be Disruptive
Yesterday I was at the awesome NYU Entrepreneurial Festival. A highlight for me was Luke Williams’ class on disruptive thinking. Here’s what I got out of it. In your biz and in your life, chose the...
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Maya
Ah, Maya, I never knew you. But you knew me. You spoke to me and valued me. You valued us all, enough to invoke us to tell our stories. You held yourself so regally. You made it okay to be a performer,...
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Something Good About to Happen
I have had this uncanny sense that I’m about to experience some miracle. Is it the onset of summer? A time of less work? I have been freelancing, leading workshops, substitute teaching, tutoring and...
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Parkinson’s and Depression: My Perspective
It should be obvious from my blog posts that my husband’s Parkinson’s Disease is not a death sentence. It is a “shit-this-sucks!” sentence. The disease has slowed down Chris’s ability to move and,...
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Try Enthusiasm
When I am enthusiastic about a subject I’m teaching, my students are too. If I tell the little ones, “You’re going to like this drama game!” They do. It may be a drama game they’ve played before, like...
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A Poem for History and Heritage Day
Who was the nomad? Was it you? Did you use a walking stick? A talking stick? Did you find — as you journeyed — a sense of home? Why did you leave? Were you told to honor your father and mother? But...
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What do you call yourself?
I need a new business card. So I went to LinkedIn to see what to put on my card. Also, I wanted to update my publications with that recent newspaper commentary. I noticed I called myself a...
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