In the past couple of months, I’ve started three support groups, and honestly, they’ve been a game-changer. Two are work-related, focused on marketing and book promotion. The third is a small group of friends where we cheer each other on in our creative endeavors—committing to daily writing and weekly artist dates. All three have been…
My brother-in-law is a huge fan of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Fun fact: I recently discovered that the proper German pronunciation of his name is “Goo-t’h.” Don’t worry if you’ve been saying it differently—apparently, people struggled with it even in his own time! Whenever I visit my sister’s house, I seem to stumble upon another…
I heard some amazing poetry on public radio last week. Terry Gross interviewed Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, a poet whose daughter was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. After her daughter’s death, Kathleen wrote a collection of beautiful, poignant poems, recently published as Slamming the Door Open. One reviewer called her poems “spare, unflinching, and powerful.” I couldn’t…
The other day, I had the pleasure of working with a coaching client who wears many hats: artist, writer, graphic designer, workshop leader, and creativity coach. She’s one of those people who can do it all and somehow make it look seamless. Her current goal? Getting more of her art into local galleries. We started…
Yesterday, I stumbled upon something I wrote back in 2000, a pivotal time when I was opening up my creative channels. It was a few years after completing my Ph.D. in 1996 and spending some time teaching. But by then, I felt the need to step away from the “Ph.D.” identity entirely and explore a…
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