Uncategorized 10 Feb 2023 Poetry Marathon! A Month of Writing Poems Dear friends, I'm challenged, excited, baffled, stumped, inspired, energized, disorganized, off and running in the month's marathon of writing 30… Christi+
Uncategorized 09 Feb 2023 Saying Yes in 2023 YES It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know.… Christi+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
Quarantine Stories, Uncategorized 07 Apr 2020 Quarantine Stories: Stuck at Home Go under the bed. Under Mother’s bed is a light bulb, a pink sweater, a safety pin and an umbrella.… Christi+
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2020 Quarantine Stories: Summer Camp The packing list said sunscreen, sleeping bag, trail mix. I would tame the wild woods with flashlight and wool socks. But the word swimming suit choked my… Christi+
Creativity, National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo, Uncategorized, Writing Tips and Tools 02 Feb 2019 Sense and Sensibility: Finding A New Approach “I will be mistress of myself.” --Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen I wrote my first novel twenty… Christi+
Burn Wild, My Creative Journey, Uncategorized 19 Oct 2017 Why Every Brilliant Thing Is Brilliant “Look with new eyes,” I tell the writers I coach. “See through the eyes of Dream Kid. Then write about… Christi+
