Chart A Course To Write Your Memoir

Like clients Kirby and Jonathan, you can write and publish your memoir. Consider the Memoir class as getting your feet wet, the Creative Writers Workshop as training, and personal writer’s coaching & editing as the swim toward the finish line.   Start Somewhere. Diana Nyad, 64, an American long distance swimmer, became the first person…

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Pleas and Thank Yous

After my morning ritual of journaling the cobwebs from my head, stretching the cricks from my joints, then feeding my body tea, fruit and grain, I felt jaunty, ready to go. As I passed my desk, I noticed a text from an inner circle friend sharing that a mutual friend had suddenly passed away. Instinctively,…

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Just Now

Go. Out. Side. Waking up late today after a very full yesterday added to daylight savings time stealing an hour, I did my morning ritual in the afternoon — writing, drinking tea and checking in with the world online. My intuition kept nudging me: Get in the sunshine.  Make that the priority. Okay, okay. No…

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Fresh Youth, Raw Truth

A Veggie Memoir:  also appearing as part of the Valentine’s celebration of Love and Veggies at http://www.goingveggie.com/a-month-of-veggie-love/ I looked at the ground as I dragged my feet, the old tennis shoes so caked in red clay that tying them had been abandoned last growing season.  They were now slip-ons that I wore on my death march…

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