Do you ever want to hit the reset button and begin again? I certainly do, especially when it comes to my writing practice. As many of you...

I am writing this at my desk in cabin #20 at the Highlights Foundation’s retreat center. As I look out my window past the screened-in...

I've enjoyed having Lynn Lothman as a participant in my Monday afternoon Amherst Writers & Artists workshop, “Writing from the Heart.”...

It's been far too long since I've showcased one of the talented writers in my Monday afternoon women's writing workshop, "Writing from...

Where I live in Loudoun County, the snow is falling thickly. According to the forecast, we are supposed to get up to 10 inches, which is...

Sometimes I think I do my best writing on my friend Summer Hardinge’s screen porch. As a writing workshop leader, I have long realized...

At the end of April a small group of writers joined me for Flower & Garden / Pen & Page, a Saturday morning writing workshop that...

In the last six-week session of Writing from the Heart, one of our favorite prompts was this: Write about your favorite childhood junk...

Sometimes as writers we just need a quick fix—to be noticed, to have our work read by someone other than our spouse, and to see our words...

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” —Woody Allen On Thursday I made the five-hour drive to Milanville,...

A new session of Writing from the Heart, a women’s Amherst Writers & Artists workshop, began on Monday. I had been looking forward to...

Last Wednesday night I manifested a dream. For years, ever since I became a writing workshop leader, I have felt called to offer a class...

I’ve recently returned from a weeklong writing retreat in the south of France (more on that in a future post) led by my friend and fellow...

In February I went to a yoga and meditation retreat in the mountains of Costa Rica. When I say “in the mountains,” what I mean is that...

To prepare for an upcoming writing retreat in France led by my friend Summer Hardinge, I decided to read Alain de Botton’s The Art of...

Cindy Atlee and I go way back to the days when I taught YogaRhythmics®. Every week we danced, laughed, and stretched together, and I had...

It’s the most common of clichés: “Inertia is a powerful force.” Mostly we tend to think of it in terms of exercise. Who hasn’t been in a...

I don't know about you, but I often find myself at this time of year—the twilight between Christmas and New Year's—wondering where the...

Barbara Farmer has been coming to my Monday women’s AWA workshop, Writing from the Heart, for several years. You can still hear traces of...

Yesterday afternoon I had a brilliant idea: I called my friend Rebecca to see if she wanted to have a writer’s date at the library....