May 5, 2010 | personal growth
“Scars remind us where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we’re going.”This quotation is from the senior behavioral analyst on the TV show, Criminal Minds. It’s a series I love because it delves so deeply into some intense stories, relationships, feelings,...
Apr 20, 2010 | personal growth
When I was a child, my birthday was a day filled with a carousel ride in Central Park, chocolate cupcakes, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company or the Paper Bag Players, pin-the-tail-on-the-mouse, and friends and family. As I’ve gotten older, my birthday’s been a day of...
Apr 12, 2010 | personal growth, writing craft and process
The characters in our stories speak to us; they urge us to listen to them, care about them, tell their stories; breathe life into them and be their voice. Sometimes these characters are gentle, tapping lightly on our shoulder, allowing us to glimpse them out of the...
Apr 1, 2010 | writing craft and process
CHARLES gray flannel suit a milky white shirt a handsome and sleek-perfect fit with supple suede shoes and cream velvet gloves his style has become such a habit a sly backward glance then out of the house he folds himself into the shadows accustomed to night...
Mar 29, 2010 | personal growth
New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a hard place to live—it was a volatile city reacting to the dynamics of the Civil Rights movement, the Women’s movement, and the Vietnam War; it was a city crippled by social disorder, struggling to merge its...