Category Archives: Write For Your Life
Writing About Dementia
The benefits of writing and journal keeping through the experience of dementia.
What Are the Poems that the World is Telling?
A short poem for World Poetry Day
Pools of Poetry: Word Art Collage
Wordle of learning from a course on word arts collage, an introduction to poetry therapy.
A Prescription for Poetry: How Writing Keeps Us Well
Prose poem singing the praises of poem writing to keep us well, to keep us sane
This is Not a Memoir
Allowing myself to drop a writing form that simply wasn’t working. A prose poem on dropping memoir.
Why We Need Poetry
A loving exploration of the benefits of poetry in a logical, rational, sadly insane kind of world.
Everyday Essentials
Quote from Natalie Goldberg on the importance of paying attention.
9 Possible Ways That Writing Changes Things
How writing can open up a sense of creativity, playfulness, the freedom to dream, and explore what’s possible.
Look to Your Source
She was driving home, travelling west, at the end of a long day and an even longer journey. Caught the boat with minutes to spare and then, only then, could she switch off the engine and rest. Stop, and breathe. Although it was late, there was light in the evening sky yet. She went up […]
