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Join Me for Lists & Letters

Whether you’re preparing for a presentation at work, delivering a toast, writing a personal essay, or tempted to jump on a storytelling stage, lists and letters can serve as portals to your story. Join me Monday at DreamBank Madison for this beginner-friendly workshop with quick tips for writing and sharing your personal narrative. Participants will write a short piece and volunteers will workshop their writing aloud, for the whole group to learn. All are welcome — especially those nervous about public speaking. FREE registration here. Space is limited, so snag your seat!

My Lawn, My Anxiety Shire. A podcast. An invitation.

This summer I signed up for Robin Wise’s Finding Your Voice online writing course with guest teacher Emily McDowell. We get a photo prompt every other day, totaling 28 prompts. I hold myself accountable to every prompt, writing both fiction and non. Occasionally, I share one on the medias. My Anxiety Shire The lawn never dries in back. All summer the rain and humidity gets trapped in its Rapunzel tresses, breeding mosquitoes and anxiety. You can mow a dry lawn in 45 minutes. You can zone out and enjoy the back and forth motion, the… Read More »My Lawn, My Anxiety Shire. A podcast. An invitation.

Spring #30BrighterDays

Last night I led a #30BrighterDays workshop here in town at the DreamBank. Each attendee left with their own customized 30-day practice (and journal); practice simply for practice sake, rather than practice with an over-focus on outcomes. The goal is the process, the process is the goal. One person chose a practice of daily acceptance for her difficult circumstances, one woman plans to make dates with brightness– checking out museums and maybe learning a new dance or two on YouTube. Others decided to simply take note of brightness every day around them. When I created… Read More »Spring #30BrighterDays

Practice anti-perfection with me

I live mostly in gratitude right now for my dry safe home and healthy loved ones. If you live out of harm’s way like I do today–for this moment–you, too, likely hold sadness and deep sympathy for the suffering due to the hurricanes, forest fires, and deportation threats. The list of potential and imminent tragedies looms large and touches so many people. You probably have taken action steps to give or help however you can. I have too, and will leave some links below. I’m also preparing for my talk at the DreamBank next week on… Read More »Practice anti-perfection with me

Join me at Madison Women’s Expo!

Grab your people and head to the Alliant Center for Listen To Your Mother live-storytelling this Saturday November 19th at 11 am on the DreamBank stage! Enjoy funny and moving true stories from Erin Clune, Beverly Davis, Cate Guggino, Jane Wright Jones, Jessie Loeb, Jolieth McIntosh, De’Kendrea Stamps, and me!! Then “explore, engage and experience” Madison Women’s Expo’s treats, shopping, speakers, entertainment all weekend long. Find discounted expo tickets here. Join me for a lighthearted soul-filling event. Hope to see you there!