Dream Year Weekend – A Personal Look
Those of you who've been following my work for a while have heard me casually, repeatedly and sometimes passionately refer to something called Dream Year.
Just to recap, Dream Year is a STORY-family offering that helps people achieve a goal (that book you always wanted to write, that charitable organization you always wanted to start, that company you want to get off the ground and so on) in just twelve months.
While a small number of applicants are accepted into year-round coaching with ...
Being Human – The Necessary Prerequisites
I've thought quite a few times that being Pro-Life requires far more than promoting alternatives to abortion.
Acting on behalf of life, in favor of life, extends to a lot of other issues.
Extreme poverty. Living wage. Health care. Clean water. Disease prevention.
Sometimes I think "being Pro-Life" even extends further to much more routine actions, tasks a lot closer to home.
To not sleeping enough. To driving recklessly. To putting crap into our bodies. To not wearing seatbelts ...
I Want to Write (Weekly Finds for the Writer In the Making)
(This post is the next one in a series previously called Writing Brain Dumps. Each week, it highlights quirky news or unusual facts about the publishing industry.)
You've probably already noticed that some story-tellers are better than others. But would you have attributed it to brain-science? Curious? Check out this neurologist's take on why writer's think via story (We learn to invent narrative to fill in memory gaps.)
Looking for something less heady? Click through these images ...
When In Doubt, Write
Life has yet to deliver the day when I don't want to write--as a craft, as a hobby, as a personal development tool...and yes, sometimes for "work". Below are some of the projects that represent the many kinds of writings touching my life these days.
My friend Brad Johnson released the e-book Four Laws of Forgiveness. Brad is a life-long pastor and counselor who has poured his own experiences--both successes and failures--into capturing how forgiveness really works. I had the pleasure to ...
Symbols of Brotherhood
Several of my current writing projects touch on a similar theme: brotherhood.
Or at least that is how I, ironically a hyper-skinny, middle class white girl, would term it.
The word "brotherhood" conjures up more than just a dictionary definition ... for me.
It provokes a feeling of deep camaraderie, and automatically sets off a daydreamed mashup of real life and movie-esque displays of allegiance (think secret societies, Musketeers, grass roots revolutionaries, disciples).
The ...