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Photo by Umberto on Unsplash   March 2024   Hello Writers!   I don’t know about you, but I’m welcoming March with open arms! I can at least pretend that spring is here. It’s a psychological boost, even if it isn’t reality. You might expect that the March newsletter would focus on spring, tulips and Easter lilies popping up, and ...

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Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash February 2024 Hello Writers!   February is full of phenomena, starting with Groundhog Day (no shadow, early Spring!), middling with (love it or hate it) Valentine’s Day, and ending (this year) with an extra day because it’s Leap Year. It’s also home to Super Bowl Sunday (Go Niners! Or… Go Taylor, I mean Taylor’s ...

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Photo by Cristian Escobar on Unsplash   “I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.” ~Annie Dillard~ January 2024 Happy New Year, Women Who Write! Should auld acquaintance be forgot/and never brought to mind/Should auld acquaintance be forgot.” A poet made this Scottish drinking song famous. In 1788, Robert “Robbie” Burns wrote the words to Auld Lang Syne. Poetry ...

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“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need. for the best fresh start of your life.” ~Vivian White~ December 2023   Happy Holidays to our Women Who Write~   Winter has arrived. The branches are now emptied of leaves. Darkness arrives way too early. The winds bluster. Leaving the house is no longer a simple affair. We ...

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Photo by Brad West on Unsplash   “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody Beattie   We are now on the ...

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Photo by Miguel Gonzalez on Unsplash   “We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. ...

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Photo by Tim Swaan on Unsplash “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” ~Alice Walker~   September 2023 Dear Woman, Who Writes, Imagine yourself walking across this bridge with only your senses as a companion. You’re in no hurry. You’ve stowed your cell phone. You are ...

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Photo by Austin Schmid on Unsplash   “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can . . . You will ...

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Photo by Elly Johnson on Unsplash July 2023 Dear Woman Who Writes— Writing instructor, Tarn Wilson, in her short essay, “Good Noticing: A Whole-Body Strategy,  Brevitymag.com, instructs her creative writing students to notice “Layers of sound. The quality of the light. Textures and patterns. Stillness and movement. How it feels to inhabit our bodies.”  She asks her students to keep ...

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Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash “I don’t sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert~ ...

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