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Mar.22.2013 The Memory of Love - Finding Wholeness When the four-year-old daughter of Frank Bures, contributing editor to Poets & Writers, asked him to tell her about the sad and scary parts of his life, he did. As a writer and editor he understood the power of narrative, yet he didn’t understand why his daughter listened so intently to...	Aug.17.2011 The Threshold The Threshold (guardians, helpers, mentor) – You reach the jumping-off point, but you come across guardians, who seek to block your path. You must overcome these threshold guardians. You will often find helpers and a mentor to help you do this. These new friends are kindred spirits for your journey...
Aug.16.2011 The Call The Call – you feel that your current life is not enough. You feel restless, dissatisfied. A crisis or series of crises may crop up, forcing you to reexamine your priorities and life path. ~ from "The Hero's JourneyThe call came when I was in my late thirties. I was a stay-at-home mom for a...	Sep.03.2010 Journey Begun: Visionary Hero There is a friend of mine with a wonderful vision that is calling him forward on a journey that he finds irresistible but, at times, intensely difficult: "It's like pushing a snowball up an active volcano." He is Mark Temple, a Canadian swim coach of some renown in his country but...
Aug.24.2010 A Turn In The Path With only moments left before going to work, I am happy to say I've signed up for an online short-story writing course taught by Jessica Barksdale Inclan, whom I met here on RedRoom. The college sign-up process was designed by the devil himself in the guise of an IT department whose sense of evil...	Jul.09.2010 Here and Gone: Writer's Retreat On The Horizon We've come down from the mountain; the leadership retreat is over. It's time for The Return, which I'll write about tomorrow. Mt. Madonna is behind me now; participants have dispersed. I'm certainly feeling the after effects, which feels like I've been shaken and stirred, poured into a...
Jul.06.2010 The Hero's Journey: Chautauqua at Mt. Madonna I I'm not where I was yesterday. This is a condition to be wished, believe me. I left home and wandered off to the northeast a bit and found myself in the company of people who are thinking about deep stuff high on a mountain top. And they're not getting paid to do it. As a matter of fact, they'...	Apr.23.2010 Evolving Technique, From Discovery-Writing to Structured Plotting I used to be a "discovery writer." Oddly enough, I didn't even know there was a name for my writing style until just a couple of years ago, so far into my rabbit hole was I. Back then, I began a book or story on the strength of a head full of images, voices, snippets of plot and...
May.21.2008 A Letter to Hillary Dear Senator Clinton: Congratulations on winning Kentucky. I think I should start on the positive first because I’m going to say some things that might not be considered positive. First, I’ll tell you a story. Ten years ago, when Monica Levinsky became a household name, my...