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You know that old saying, If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? 2011 was a year for me where pretty much everything broke. And it’s yielded some incredible opportunities for fixing in 2012! Sometimes, as the adage advises, things just need to completely fall apart before they get our attention. And when they’re completely, utterly broken, the fixing process can … Read More

Hello and happy Friday! I hope you have at least as many words on the page today as I have crumpled tissues littering the various surfaces of my home. January has kicked off over here with a very devoted strain of bronchitis, accompanied by a surprising and potent smattering of f-words! The one at the top of my most popular … Read More

Happy New Year, writers! I’ve been so enjoying the potential of the great, blank page of 2012 that I haven’t been able to bring myself to mar it with a single word. At least, that’s what I was telling myself until my dear friend gave me this mug today: When I held it in my hands and had a good, … Read More

By Kaylin Haught I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic and she said yes I asked her if it was okay to be short and she said it sure is I asked her if I could wear nail polish or not wear nail polish and she said honey she calls me that sometimes she said you can … Read More

By Kate DiCamillo Once, I was in New York, in Central Park, and I saw an old man in a black overcoat walking a black dog. This was springtime and the trees were still bare and the sky was gray and low and it began, suddenly, to snow: big fat flakes that twirled and landed on the black of the … Read More

As far as I can tell, intention is the most powerful and mysterious kind of treasure map there is. Over the years, I have trained myself to dream big, intend wildly, and let the failures and successes fall where they may. In the coming week, I am going to invite you to join me in a process for setting intentions … Read More

—   David Whyte When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your womb tonight. The night … Read More

My son approached me with his small red car, plopped himself in my lap, and proclaimed as he zoomed the car up and down my thigh, “Mommy, I’m so happy that you’re so happy that I’m so happy with my Lightning McQueen.” Three days after initiating a simple bedtime gratitude practice (where we each name three things that made us … Read More

As I was tucking my three-year-old son into bed tonight, he mentioned that he was concerned that he might have a hard time falling asleep because he was thinking about monsters and ghosts. I set out to explain to him that the wonderful thing about thinking is that we have the option to change our thoughts if we don’t like … Read More

If you have ever lived with a dog, loved a dog, or even read about a dog, chances are good that you have an entire toolkit of strategies for your writing life woven into your nervous system — imprinted by your canine companion. My dog Henry thinks my company is so exquisite that he literally can’t bear to let a … Read More