Tell the Story
You can read about the history of abecedaria here. In my February workshop we’re exploring writing as quilting, and I’m thinking about my love for these smallest bits of meaning. My blog posts this month will start with a letter for each day, the 29 days of February giving me plenty of leeway to make it […]
read moreLately I’ve been choosing a monthly theme for my writing classes. December was “home.” January has been “using fictional techniques to improve your memoir or creative nonfiction.” I asked my faithful, week-in, week-out students last week if there was anything in particular that they wanted to work on in February. They said, the basics of […]
read moreThree years ago I created a blog called Graciespeaks with a link to this poem. I think I should read it every day. Aloud. And begin again. Praise Song for the Day BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s […]
read moreI called my congresswoman today to express my opposition to SOPA and PIPA. I started thinking about freedom. About art’s dependence up on it. And about the ways I censor myself, long before any person or government might. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION, FROM WANT AND FEAR–these are the Four Essential Human Freedoms, from […]
read moreirresistible, irrefutable pause, space, bridge between inhale and exhale the tide’s coming in and going out salt and fresh water this life and the next night and morning one year’s ending and the next’s beginning plan and implementation action and fruition you and me
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For years I kept secrets in silence. Then, once upon a time, I spoke and wrote them to a handful of people and began to blog anonymously. Today I tell my stories face-to-face, online, and in a memoir coming soon. Telling our stories leads to freedom, empowerment, and growth, for both the teller and the told. Is today your once upon a time, your time to tell your story?
