An Honest Post

    It just occurred to me that the photograph (above) posted on FaceBook recently was one of the most honest social media posts I’ve ever done. It’s a photo of my  house guest Victoria under my sink with my friend Trent dealing with my garbage disposal – which threatened to flood the kitchen. An…

Wisdom & Inspiration Via Netflix

  I’ve given up on the news – it makes me anxious, insane, and profoundly depressed. So I’ve turned to Netflix documentaries instead of CNN. And it’s paying off. Life lessons, inspiration, wisdom et al. The first documentary I watched this week was Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella show, “Homecoming”.  Let’s face it, Beyoncé’s a force of nature –…

Finding Time 101

Happy New Year dear writers/readers – Over the holidays various people at parties have said to me, “I really want to write but -”   then they shrug. “It’s so hard to find the time,” they say. So, here’s Getting Started 101: You will never find the time. There will always be something much more…

Finding Your Posse

  Where’s your posse? Your tribe? The Lit Salon was here this morning (above), my Vroman’s workshop was yesterday, and I’m organizing a writing retreat in Lake Arrowhead for October – so I’ve been thinking a lot about what writers need, what we can get out of retreats and workshops, what can actually be taught…

Solitude

  “One does not find solitude, one creates it,” wrote Marguerite Duras when she moved from Trouville to her new house in Neauphle, France. She’s one of my favorite writers and now in my almost-finished new house in Pasadena I’m rereading her:  “Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost…