MINDFUL WRITING – BALANCING SURRENDER AND CONTROL

MINDFUL WRITING – BALANCING SURRENDER AND CONTROL

Mindful Writing is a lot like life which is a lot like dancing on a teeter-totter, “surrender” at one end and “control” at the other. When the desire for control takes over, I buckle down, work harder, make some progress but too often end up banging my head against a...
Haiku Memoir

Haiku Memoir

  Today’s entry is about what I call “Haiku Memoir,” that shares some important characteristics with Improvisational Theatre (what I wrote about last time). Both Improv and Haiku Memoir are HUGE fun. They’re brief. They’re in the...
The Joy of Journaling

The Joy of Journaling

photo credit: pixabay.com For decades, I’ve written a journal. Sometimes I was unfaithful. But when I returned, which I always did, the question scratched at me, “Why were you gone so long?” It was so sweet to be back.  After a number of such wandering absences,...