I used to want to sit down when I’m tired. Now with an overabundance of virtual meetings on the computer, I’m just tired of sitting down. With my eyes on the computer screen, my head falls forward, shoulders hunch up, back rounds in a slouch, and my body gets stiff. When I look up at …Read More
Month: August 2020
Funeral Blues ~ W. H. Auden
During times of crisis when the world is soaked in grief, waves of sadness touch us as we yearn for what has been lost. When in the middle of grief, it helps to know that we are not alone. We find comfort knowing that others have been there and survived to tell about it. W. …Read More
Not how the story should end
In my online workshop on telling personal stories, we devote a whole class to folk tales. You might be asking, “What do folk tales have to do with personal stories?” Folk tales taught me the structure of stories. The classic plots, themes, messages occur over and over again in the folk tales and are reworked …Read More