When I was a very little girl I loved to dance. Once a week my Nana would take me to the Senior Center (which in England I think they used to call the Old Age Pensioner’s Club – nice) so I could gavotte around for their entertainment. I loved it. And I almost killed my [...]
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Gotta dance!
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged authenticity, body wisdom, writing on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Steppingstones to a new life
Posted in It's all About Me, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Memoir, Writing & Career, tagged Healing, journaling, religion, serendipity, steppingstones, writing on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning in my journal I wrote: I am blessed with abundance. I am blessed with the answer. I am a magnet to all the resources I need. What is the answer? I need to know what path to go down today. This morning I wrote: Oh, lawd! I feel like a puzzle piece just [...]
On a quest to find the truth
Posted in Healing, Memoir, tagged answers, inner wisdom, journaling, memories, subconscious on April 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m sitting here in this hotel room and suddenly I’m struck dumb. No fighting children to break apart, no dinner to prepare, no responsibilities. I could write all night if I so wished. But nope, nothing. Too quiet, no time limit. But I’m not here to write this blog post anyway. Truth is, I came [...]
Perpetuating our own truth
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged anxiety, authenticity, getting older on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even before I got out of the car I questioned why I was here. I had pulled myself away from a cozy fire and good company to go out into a chilly, damp December night. I was about to walk into an overheated crowd of locals, some of whom I hadn’t seen for twenty years [...]
A Memory of Cabbage, Reprise
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Memoir, tagged journaling, springboard on October 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I posted this journaling prompt a couple weeks ago on my old site. I haven’t used it myself but I did have the opportunity to introduce it at a workshop with three lovely ladies this past week. It is from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: Do a 5-minute writing sprint on… a memory [...]





