This is part of a blog flurry about writing with my friends Susan Piver, Hiro Boga, and Mahala Mazerov. Partake of their posts today please. To be a writer is to be a translator. Think about it—when writing, you attempt to translate the shadowy bits that dart and loop around your brain, that whistle for [...]

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This month at the Comfort Cafe is all about stories – how we live in them, how they live us, how we can live in them more mindfully- I thought I might share some of what we’re learning with you, my most fabulous blog readers who, for some silly reason, are not all members of [...]

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Carla isn’t. This is a guest post by Carla Blazek of Zenamoon. She’s a dear friend. She’s spoken at the Comfort Cafe about Rest and she’s attended my writer’s retreat in Taos several times, where she worked on her soon-to-be-finished book, Women at Rest. I published this post because it so beautifully captures being enough. [...]

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A satisfied Satisfaction Finder emailed me to ask about the Hounds of More. You said in your book that the “Hounds of More are petrified you won’t be able to do what you most yearn to do in your life, so they keep you running in circles, chasing your—and their!—tails. Smart people who have big [...]

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