Uncategorized 28 Jun 2022 Don’t Leave the Beach! I can’t believe it’s been nine months since I moved to the Oregon Coast. Some adjustments have been huge,… Christi
Poetry 27 Jun 2022 Why Be a Rockstar? Why Get Published? I was at Willamette Writers when first introduced to the writing of William Stafford two decades ago. The poems seemed… Christi
Poetry, Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 21 Feb 2022 How to Take a Forest Bath It's been an interesting poem-writing marathon this month, feeling exultation and pride one day and like a complete dud the… Christi
Clark College Classes 17 Feb 2022 Get Published in 2022! Class: Get Published in 2022 New dates: Monday and Tuesday, March 7 & 8, 6:30 - 8:30 pm PST Want… Christi
Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 11 Feb 2022 Update: 30 Poems in 30 Days Dear Friends: Taking part in the 30/30 Project began with the thrill of accountability and the challenge to daily arrange… Christi
Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project, Uncategorized 01 Feb 2022 Day One: Writing Marathon Here I am, Day One! There's so much mental activity that goes with "putting your work out there." I notice… Christi
Poetry, Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 01 Feb 2022 I’m Writing A Marathon! I'm running in a marathon - of poetry! I've been invited to be a guest poet for Tupelo Press in… Christi
My Creative Journey, Sensitive People & Empaths, Uncategorized 12 Dec 2021 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time It's the strangest crime that has ever happened in his neighborhood, and he simply must solve it: who speared the… Christi
Art, Wildfire Writers, Wildfire Writing Class, Workshops 30 May 2021 Writing to Experience Life "The artist is comfortable only with going back to the way in which the chaos is first encountered—that is, moment… Christi
Uncategorized 05 May 2021 No Other Practice "There is no other practice than this practice." --Shunru Suzuki Christi
Uncategorized 04 May 2021 The Most Important Thing, for Writing or Just Being: Doing Nothing The most important thing I do every day is . . . believe it or not . . . nothing.… Christi
Uncategorized 10 Jan 2021 Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Write Neither you nor I would expect to complete a memoir while crouching to avoid the shots of a bank robber;… Christi
Writing and the Body 29 Dec 2020 Write to Listen to the Body Hearing the Message of Pain Some weeks ago I was going about business as usual when I noticed that it… Christi
Uncategorized 03 Aug 2020 I’m Not Making this Up “I’m not making this up. I’ve made it down. That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense, getting down so… Christi
Uncategorized 26 May 2020 Six Ways to Combat Zoom Fatigue Two weeks into the 2020 Covid-19 quarantine, I was feeling pretty good. I met online with my directors at… Christi
