Category Archives: The Writing

Disspelling Shadows

I’ve spoken about the Light, most recently in a mini-ebook, You’re Great – Now Magnify the Light! ~ and for the sake of balance, perhaps it’s time to mention the Dark. Magnifying the light automatically reduces the dark, but dark, … Continue reading

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Excerpt: Voyage Home

Excerpt about the voyage home from The Nancy Who Drew: The Memoir That Solved A Mystery One of the sailors led me to my cabin. We stepped carefully over cables of twisted steel littering the deck. We circled around bristly-faced … Continue reading

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Art and Alignment

I often see things, but then it takes a while for the penny to drop. In fact it really doesn’t drop at all until I paint something…or write about it, or write about the painting. It’s like I need that … Continue reading

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Do You See What You Are Seeing?

“We are conditioned to see, and still not “see” what we are seeing.” That is why learning how to draw or paint “from life” is such a vital and excellent exercise in establishing just exactly WHAT we are observing and … Continue reading

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The Nancy Who Drew Light In the Darkness

To free myself from the past, I gave myself to the past. When I gave myself to the past, I found a different pathway to the present. A new passage from there to here. After I went back there, to … Continue reading

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Faith In A Dream

Once upon a time, despite having little faith in myself as a writer, I signed up for a writing class. I dreamed of being a writer. I had no faith in my ability; only the dream. I had faith in … Continue reading

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To Solve, or Not To Solve

I agree with poet Mary Oliver, when she says – Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.* But what of the mysteries too worrisome not to be understood. The mysteries that must be solved or resolved somehow, because Letting … Continue reading

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