Tell the Story
The Choose Love Project is live, and it “aims to help women, both young and old, to understand that loving our bodies and healing our relationship with food and exercise are choices, that these are indeed about choosing love.” You can read letters by women (including me!) to our younger selves, and if you’re so moved, […]
read moreBefore November ends, one more NaNoWriMo post. What makes NaNo special? Is it that writing so many words in so few days forces me to turn off my editor for a while? Yes. Is it that I have 50,000 words today that I didn’t have on October 31, and without NaNo I might only have […]
read moreLast night after I published my post on relationship bokeh, I went to bed and opened John O’Donohue’s Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (recommended, as so many good things are, by Jeanne). I began to read where I had left off, a section called “To Beautify the Gaze.” I imagined that O’Donohue had joined me in […]
read moreI am an enthusiastic novice photographer, obsessed at the moment with close-up, macro, shallow depth of field, bokeh. I wonder what it would be like to see through this kind of lens all the time, intent on whatever or whoever is in front of me, to give it or him or her my complete attention, […]
read more“Opening ourselves to the beauty that is around and within us even when we are in pain, paying attention and surrendering what we cannot control to who this beauty, this Mystery, keeps telling us we are–now that’s an act of power.” –Oriah Mountain Dreamer, in The Dance
read more
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?
