Cafés and a Conversation with Myself. Sitting in the Fehrenbacher Hof café in Portland today, typing on my laptop, gives me feelings of, all at once: freedom, happy singularity, and communion…
Category: Life Transitions
REINVENTING YOURSELF
Lately I have been thinking about reinvention. A few acquaintances have used the word in describing my recent life transition.
What does reinvention mean really? And what does it mean for someone like me—or you perhaps?
IRREGULAR & DISORDERLY
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.—Gustave Flaubert.
I spent the past weekend at the Cabot Trail Writers Festival, held in Cape Breton at Colaisde na Gàidlhlig, The Gaelic College. Throughout the weekend, Gustave Flaubert’s advice–above–was like a pedal point in my ear…
THE POWER OF CLOSE OBSERVATION
Observing–and I mean slowed-down, patient observing–puts me in the best frame of mind for writing. It involves slowing down, and noting what I am seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting. Once I am in that …
LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF: FULL-TIME WRITER, DAY ONE
I’m a 60-year-old Canadian-American woman executing a very intentional life transition from full-time job to full-time writing…
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