words to make a difference
Family history is quirky. You just never know what you’re going to find. It could be stories of growing up in the Depression or meeting Geronimo.
Science tells us that we remember things better when we write them down. In that sense, journaling helps anchor the events of the day in our minds.
Life is complex and every day we experience a range of different physical and psychological needs and emotions. In ourselves or as expressed by others. How do we make sense of it?
Apple picking. Drying apples for eating later during the winter. Pumpkin patches and hay rides. Long walks on days that are cooler, with a carpet of yellow and red leaves swishing around the feet.
What happens when you put 275 or so writers and bloggers into a room for a weekend?
I went to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration last weekend. That’s a long time. A lot of life passing by.
Recently I discovered that “cosmopolitan” apparently is a bad word to some people. Silly me, I always thought a cosmopolitan person was someone who’d been places, different cities, different cultures, different countries and who moved with ease in them all.
So many people I meet mention that they want to write a book. Maybe even vaguely dream of being discovered as the next F. Scott Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Stephen King.
When I grew up, long before the internet and Facebook, pre-teens and teens were encouraged to have pen pals.
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