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  Woody: Hey, Buzz! You’re flying!  Buzz: This isn’t flying, this is falling with style! Toy  Story Hello Writers! On my writing desk is a square stone drink coaster that I bought for myself as a Christmas gift this past year. These words are emblazoned: “What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” Poet Erin Hanson ...

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Photo by Liz Roach-Smith   Hello Writers! I remember the day I knew I wanted to be a poet. On that grey January morning, a foot of heavy snow blanketed the ground. My older brother and I eagerly caterwauled out the door to build snow forts, make snow angels and chase our dog across the yard. After lunch, I walked ...

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Photo by Nancy Burgess Happy New Year friends! WHAT IS YOUR WORD? As each new year begins, there’s an electric sense of possibility in the air—a quiet hope that this year might be different. Yet fewer than 10% of people follow through on their New Year’s resolutions. After many failed attempts myself, I chose a different approach. Instead of resolutions, ...

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Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash   Hello Writers! What are You Thankful For? With the holidays comes anxiety over giant cooking and equal overeating and its pleasant and not-so-pleasant expectations for family gatherings. We rarely ask ourselves, “What am I grateful for?” Since I don’t have a big family to see over the holidays, I have time to ...

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Photo by Niiaz Sabirov on iStock Hello Writers! Complicated Truths My husband and I attended a play recently at Actor’s Theatre called “FDR’s Very Happy Hour.” It sounded like fun, so we headed downtown on a Thursday evening hoping to miss weekend crowds. The security check seemed more intense than usual. We were wanded, and I had to open all ...

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Photo by Ryan Hutton on Unsplash Hello Writers!   Do you ever experience a confluence of seemingly unrelated events that makes you stop and think the universe is telling you something? Like all lines are converging into one point? Like it’s more than just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (e.g., when you want to buy a Kia Sorento and all of sudden ...

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  Photo by Holly Hinson   Hello Writers!   Women Who Write is more than a writing group, and words have more power than most give them credit for. Sometimes, the ordinary moment can become extraordinary. Jodi was a first-timer at a recent meeting. The meeting was only medium-full and not many writers had signed up to read, but Jodi ...

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Photo by Liz Roach-Smith   Hello Writers!   When I came upon the shell necklace among my dead grandmother’s jewelry, I felt as if I’d walked into a fairytale. It looked straight out of The Little Mermaid. Even for a cynical teenager, the necklace stirred my imagination. Not least because it didn’t fit Grandmother’s style. Its simplicity, its plainness, its ...

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Photo by Alonso Reyes on Unsplash   Hello Writers!   My newest favorite book (because you can’t have just one favorite) is Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. I read it two years ago at the very beginnings of my autistic journey, and it just so happened that Tress is very autistically coded: logical, with justice sensitivity and ...

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  Image by Michelle Pitzel from Pixabay   Hello Writers! Back in my very distant childhood, June was freedom from the stress of being the perfect, well-behaved student. At last, no worries about finishing homework, finding someone to sit with at lunch, or whether my best friend was talking to me that day. The summer of 1965, I was 13 ...

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