• Learning,  Life,  Lists,  Process,  Writing

    Writing is an Act of Discovery

    three written pages and a pen lay on a table

    “Writing is an act of discovery.” – Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones 18 Things I Discovered about Business and Writing in 2022 Our final Wednesday Writing Group session of 2022 contained a simple prompt: What did you discover this year… about yourself or anything else? After a brief pause,…

  • Life

    Writing from the Heart: When Karma Intervenes

    magnetic words on a fridge - the poetry we live

    Writing from the heart? It’s complicated, cathartic, even karmic… UPDATE:  I originally wrote this post in early 2017, heavily self-censored. In September 2021, I’m sharing again with more truth.    2017… What happens when we write from the heart? (And share it?) I recently read an article from a fellow blogger…

  • Classroom Life,  Life,  Process

    Disconnected…

    A year ago, on January 4, 2015, I drafted the post below but never published it. I was struggling and knew that if something didn’t change soon, I’d go over the edge. It was a really, really, tough time for me……  Jan 4, 2015: What do you do when what you do is no longer…