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Family Affairs

HAVING JUST RETURNED from my oldest son’s wedding in Florida, I’ve been thinking a lot about family this week. Images of the bride’s family and of mine keep flashing through my mind—a grand mix of...

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Five Ways to Build Healthy Boundaries

THIS AFTERNOON, spurred by a blog article in Christina Katz’s e-zine, “The Prosperous Writer,” I pondered the subject of boundaries and all the ways boundaries serve us in life, both professionally and...

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Ten Journal Writing Prompts for New Love

SO, YOU THINK you’ve just met the perfect boy, girl, man, or woman. Journaling through all the ups and downs at the beginning of a new relationship can help you understand your emotions and keep your...

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: The Characters in Your Life

A week ago, I attended a surprise birthday for my little brother (I won’t say how old he is) and saw a number of family members I see too infrequently. It’s my own fault, of course. I’m busy, we’re...

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BlogTalk: The Conundrum of Writing About Family

Deborah Siegal recently posted a provocative article over on SheWrites: Do We Overshare When We Write about Our Kids? It reminded me of a question recently put to my writing club’s author support...

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Things We Take for Granted

My youngest son turned eighteen this week. Five days before his birthday, he left home, marking a significant turning point in both our lives—for him, the start of independence and life as an adult;...

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: On Fathers

The approach of Fathers’ Day, heralded by ads for colorful shirts, silk ties, barbecues, and heavy duty tools, makes me think about all the fathers I know and their importance to their children. My...

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Writing About Domestic Violence

Since October is Domestic Awareness Month, I want to help bring awareness to this issue while offering ways to write about how violence affects each of us personally. It’s not a subject we like to...

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Domestic Violence: A Personal View

OCTOBER is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Last October, I wrote about domestic violence and offered some journaling and memoir writing prompts to help confront the subject head on. But I wrote as...

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Presidential Words Applied to Life and Love

I FOUND MYSELF EMBROILED in a bloggers dilemma as I sat down to write this week’s post. Sunday is Valentine’s day — I should write a post about love and about writing about love. On the other hand,...

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Transform Your Life: Journaling Through Relationships – Introduction

WELCOME TO A NEW WritingThroughLife SERIES about journaling into and through relationships! From the beginning of our lives, relationships form and inform us. From our parents or caregivers, to...

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The Art of Writing a Love Letter

WITH VALENTINE’S DAY fast approaching, it seems like a good time to talk about the art of writing a love letter — an art that is in danger of becoming extinct, as is all letter writing, lost to the new...

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