The second week in July, I attended the Antioch Writer’s Workshop. What an exhausting and exhilarating week. The benefits continue to accrue. Here’s my first installment. Andre Dubus III gave the keynote address on Saturday evening and then taught the Master Class on Sunday morning. What a ball of energy he is. I would […]
HEART PONDERINGS … sharing with you the things I keep in my heart
Poetry at Antioch Writer’s Workshop
This week, July 12-18, I’m attending Antioch Writer’s Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. I’m learning a lot. Today I learned about Minimal Poems from Chris DeWeese, an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Wright State University. Minimal poems can have as few as one word. That surprised me. Chris invited us to write a poem […]
Honoring an Encourager
Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn’t. Claire Gillian Fifteen years ago, while listening to my daughter tell our story, Julie looked at me at least […]
My Intention: Wholehearted Engagement
…we must dare to show up and let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Brené Brown I place a star next to the paragraph I just highlighted in my copy of Brené Brown’s book, Daring Greatly, where she writes about the vulnerability of putting our writing out into the world with […]
An Adventure in LIVING
As the Mad Anthony Writer’s Workshop (April 4-6) draws near, e-mails fly back and forth. Nita, my writing partner, and I help each other put finishing touches on our pitches. Nita with her Bluebells In the writing business, a “pitch” is a one-to-three minute elevator speech to an agent communicating what is distinctive […]
The Plot Sisters
Today I want to acknowledge five vibrant Dayton writers. They dub themselves “The Plot Sisters,” meet regularly to critique each other’s writing, and attend writing conferences together. Traci Ison Schafer, Cindy Cremeans, Christina Consolino, Jen Messaros Ruthann Kain (not pictured) Fortuitously, I reconnected with four of them at the Mad Anthony Writer’s Conference […]
