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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleTen 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBlogTalk: 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...
View ArticleA 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;...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWriting 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...
View ArticleDomestic 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...
View ArticlePresidential 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,...
View ArticleTransform 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...
View ArticleThe 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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