I'm a writer and artist with an avid interest in imaginative worlds that explore the beautiful and wonderous alongside the tragic, dark and sorrowful.
Over the years I have explored many ways of coping with fear, uncertainty and trauma. Some were so ineffective as to be laughable, others were reasonable but didn’t work for me and mostly I learned that usually it’s a moving target. Not everything works all the time. More recently when […]
These are weird times. A few weeks ago I wasn’t blogging because I was caring for an injured stray cat from my neighborhood who has since insisted on returning now […]
As a follow up to last week’s long post I thought I would post the basic steps I follow in order to make time and space for writing and art […]
Maintaining motivation when energy levels are below 20% of your usual maximum, when your mind is hazy and when you are physically unwell is unreasonable. A lot is said about […]
If you’re a writer who wants to write a great book that sells itself then the advice about how to use social media can end up being counterproductive. Good books […]
Finally, after reflecting on ten years of journals I have some thoughts and plans for moving forward into the ’20s.
Continuing the recap of the last ten years picking back up in 2013 when I began to create light in my life through creativity while the life I’d built had […]
I spent an entire day sorting through journals in order to make a list of the trends of my last ten years as written. Not just in terms of what […]
My favorite holiday is New Year’s. It isn’t just the creation of resolutions, reflection on the past and hopes for the future. There’s a sense of death with the promise […]
I have a confession to make, I’ve read 85 books this year. It wasn’t my goal to read so much. Last year I read 115 books and had intended to […]
