Made You Laugh
My grandmother used to say that God has a sense of humor. And sometimes, I really think that’s true. Yesterday, I asked my kids to unload the groceries from the truck. Which they did. Good kids have I....
View ArticleHorses in the Herd
This time of year in Montana, I feel like the world just needs to crack open like an egg with a chick in it that is fully ready to use its beak and its legs and even its wings. But … Continue reading →
View ArticleGratitude on Ice: A Montana Lesson (ode to a crampon)
I’m going to bullet-point the last hour of my life, just for shits and giggles. Mostly the former. • 10:00 Depart house to drive teenaged daughter to bus for state-wide speaking competition. Discuss...
View ArticleA Mind of Winter…
I miss the deciduous trees. The winter sculptures that remind us of our bare bones. Like metal fingers in the sky that warn against the cold. Stay quiet. Stay inside by the fire. It’s time to rest....
View ArticleThe Smell of Snow
I recently found this piece I wrote over ten years ago…and it reminded me of how Montana has been my best teacher. May it find you aware and with deep instincts you can trust this holiday season....
View ArticleWinter Mind
Here is one of my favorite poems on this austere day. Love to all… One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long …...
View ArticleHoliday Haven: Musings on Comfort and Joy
As featured on Huffington Post 50 Now booking Haven Retreats 2014…give yourself the sacred gift of creative self-expression in Montana… “A toast does not require a glass with which to clink. It really...
View ArticleHaven Winter Writing Series
Well, it’s time for the annual Haven Winter Writing Series again, and this year we have a theme that I hope will inspire you to do something you’ve been wanting to do for a long time, but haven’t quite...
View ArticleHaven Winter Series #3
This is the third post in my winter series where I open up my blog to other writers to explore a theme. This year I asked my Haven alums to consider submitting a piece about what it took to get...
View ArticleHaven Winter Series #5
Every winter I do a writing series where I open up my blog to other writers to explore a theme. This year I asked my Haven alums to consider submitting a piece about what it took to get themselves to...
View ArticleHaven Winter Blog Series #9– Announcing Winner!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALEXIS PUTNAM! This is the last of our Haven Winter Blog Series. I hope you have enjoyed it. I don’t believe in competition, but I do believe in supporting people for fine work....
View ArticleFinding Your Voice: The 2017 Haven Winter Blog Series
Now booking 2017 Haven Writing Retreats! Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats to show the support that writers need to have for one another,...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #1: Finding Your Voice
Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats both to show the support that writers need to have for one another, to give myself the sacred dormancy of...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #5: Finding your Voice
Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats both to show the support that writers need to have for one another, to give myself the sacred dormancy of...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #6: Finding your Voice
The truth is that it’s actually not possible for anyone to have your voice, even if they try. At Haven Writing Retreats, we work off of the same prompts in our morning classes, and we all get to see...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #7: Finding your Voice
Writing holds me together and always has. I have said many times, “Don’t wait for the rug to get ripped out from underneath you to find your passions. When I went through re-invention 101, I’m...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #8: Finding your Voice
Please consider opening to the fact that YOU DO have a voice, and it is your own. Whether in your writing, speaking, thinking, feeling. And it is quite possibly simply waiting for you to give...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #9: Finding your Voice
Being passionate for our safety first is our bottom line non-negotiable. Maybe then, pain wouldn’t have to be gain. And walls would become doors, and pain would become passion and possibility. And...
View ArticleThe Melt. Are you listening?
Now Booking Haven Writing Retreats 2017 June 7-11 (still spaces) June 21-25 (still spaces) September 6-10, 20-24 October 4-8, 18-22 I feel invisible in winter. Every year, I steep myself in the...
View ArticleYou Need a BREAK!
Come wander in your words at a Haven Writing Retreat in 2018! You don’t have to be a writer to come. Just a seeker who dearly longs for your voice. Now Booking Haven I Retreats 2018! Click here for...
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