Even if you don’t call your Higher Power God, you probably have a sense that writing is a spiritual practice. What comes to us whether we’re creating a short story, writing a script, putting together
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The Scribbling Woman: A Companion to the Writerly Life
What the Sam Hill Is a Scribbling Woman?
“America is now inundated by a damned mob of scribbling women.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to William Ticknor, 1855 I know, right? Honestly, Nathaniel, whining does not become you. When I came across that quote, I had the same reaction my fellow female writers did when I shared it on Facebook: loud and furious, many of
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Shifting Gears
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein? Al-Anon? Bernard Shaw? Harold P. Schwartz? No one is quite sure who said it, but it’s the truth, regardless of the author. The dog barks when the UPS truck pulls up. We yell at the dog. The dog keeps
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Living Without a Why
“This I know. That the only way to live Is like the rose which lives without a why.” Meister Eckhart In my elderhood, one of the things I know that I know that I know – and not just believe – is that there are some things we will never know. So far, we’ve talked
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Living the Questions
“You don’t have to know the answer to know there IS an answer. Once you believe there IS an answer, the next step will be revealed.” Psychologist Scott Thomas, quoted by Julia Cameron in Seeking Wisdom As I mentioned last week on Facebook, Captain, our beloved 2001 Chevy Silverado, finally drove his last mile. After
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The Things We Can’t Google
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It is delightful to be back after a particularly nasty bout of shingles. A virus is an insidious creature that comes from we know not where, does its painful, itchy, kick-your-butt thing and then is gone
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Digesting In the In-Between Place
Every virtue stands between two vices – that of excess and deficiency. We must find the mean: the Golden Middle way. Aristotle, paraphrased from The Nicomachean Ethics I grew up in the Episcopal Church, which I loved the same way I loved Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden and The Dick Van Dyke Show. You know, the
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