Finding Your Voice

I can’t say that I’ve written all my life, but I can say that I’ve felt a need to write all my life. I was blessed to have two middle school teachers with wonderful writing programs. The first had us writing each day to develop our fluency. She also insisted upon an outline for each piece, and while I rarely used outlines after that, I have to admit this did teach me to organize. The next year I had a teacher who taught us about creativity. Each week he showed us a picture from the back of “Look” magazine and asked us to create a story around the scene in the picture. The photos were always quirky and amazing and defied reasonable explanations, leaving only room for imagination to take hold. Read more »

Synchronicities: The Magic of the Universe – Part 1

Since ancient times humans have attempted to explain coincidences, those random events that somehow seem connected. Mark Twain was fascinated by the phenomenon and kept personal writings about incidents that he called mental telegraphy. He believed that individuals were sending what we might now call telepathic messages to each other, consciously or unconsciously. Read more »