Talent is not what you think it is
This blog was originally published here. Finding the voice is like meeting with the true core of one’s identity. Finding the voice as an opera singer is a true parallel […]
Mind, heart, and the power of breathing – why would you consider breathwork?
This blog was originally published here. Mind, heart, and the power of breathing – a new perspective on breathwork as a way of life. “It takes a very long time […]
Respecting The Comma
While this author’s colleagues discussed the intricacies of the editing process during a weekend session of the Writing and the Oral Traditions cohort, he attended his youngest daughter’s high school […]
The Invention of Grandparents: Exploring the Origins of Multi-Generational Storytelling
Igniting the Imagination It began with fire. Our distant human-like ancestors mastered the primal technology of fire-making more than a million years ago. Even when we were a nomadic people […]
Family Memories: WOOLRICH, PA
My mother used to visit my husband and me in Connecticut for a few weeks in the summer. She was in her early eighties then and, except for some hearing […]
Reaping the Whirlwind, Unmasking the Writer
Sentence by Sentence When Our Editing and Writing Instructor Jane Lincoln Taylor handed out a single sheet of white-lined paper and a colored pencil on Saturday morning, I wasn’t prepared […]
Whom Do You Love? Navigating the Rough Seas of “Correct” Language
Enjoying Grammar Earlier in the Writing and Oral Traditions Program, we participated in a weekend session involving the importance of play in the classroom. This latest weekend’s editing session got […]
Writing is Hell
I wandered around the unfamiliar community center searching for a group that looked like they would fit the description of a children's writing group. As I walked into a room […]
A Road Warrior Asks: Is Spoken Word the New Publishing Medium?
Listen to this: Since I live in Pennsylvania and teach at TGI’s campus in Connecticut, I am, by definition, a Road Warrior. Crazy as it may sound, I have been […]
A Dolphin Tale
The Little Dolphin That Could Our recent cohort session on humor in storytelling reminded me of this moment in time: It was the year of 1995, and all was not […]
