I’m taking a Digital Sabbatical for the month of August. Also a coaching-talking-traveling-teaching sabbatical. Picture me bouncing around my studio with happiness and glee… and fear and trembling. Fear and trembling. What am I afraid of? The idea that is stalking me. It’s huge, it’s lofty, it makes my stomach clench or rather, I clench [...]

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Our first full day. Or was it a year? Retreat time – out of ordinary time – has already erased wrinkles, eased shoulders away from ears, brought glimmers and small miracles to the page. Carefully laid plans have been abandoned, classmates from 20 years ago rediscovered, critics met and turned into allies, and four delicious [...]

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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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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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