Category: Art
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Have We Met? Subscribe + Like = Gifts
Did you know that every week I draw a name from my mailing list and send out a personalized gift? Sign up and you could be next. Who knows, if i’m in Morocco maybe i’ll send you a crystal from the Sahara. If in California, a shell. Or if i’m home in my lonely Middle…
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Sketching Sights: Istanbul, City on the Edge (Art. Travel. Writing. Islam. Architecture)
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The Bosphorus splits Istanbul in two parts. A rift in the madness of Europe and Asia, drifting between bodies of fresh and salt water cooling the heated passion of a most ancient urban jungle. The hot, hot, heat of human movement generates organized chaos as this great strait, this rift, cushions the blow, keeping this…
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Ten Songs for Winter: For Rich Emotion, Deep Inspiration, and Lucid Dreamin’.
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in Art, literature, memoir, music, NaNoWriMo, networking, nonfiction, poet, Poetry, ten songs, the writers life, top ten, writingYou know how it goes:] the blustery mornings. Watery eyed and minus-7. The frozen pipes and snowed in nights. The red faced wind burns. But look at that, the stars have never been so sharp –outlined in the thin air like diamonds under keen inspection.
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How Not To Write in Cafes: Confessions of an Antisocial.
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in #WisdomWednesday, Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, City Guide, Confession, copywriting, Flash Poem, Flash Poetry, Kansas City, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, networking, nonfiction, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, sketch, spontaneous combustion, stream-of-consciousness, success, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, writingConfessions of an Antisocial Writer. Cafes? Don’t do it. For he love of all things Didion! I mean, I get it, there is this undeniable sex appeal. This intrique: scattering your notes across that old bistro set, the heady demitasse begging for your lips: what’s the WiFi code? Nah, I write longhand.
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Spontaneous Combustion: #1 ($99 Dollars, Almost Free: Life Coach. Copywriter. Thief)
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in Adventure, Anthropology, Arabic, Archaeology, Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, copywriting, fundraising, life coach, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, love, memoir, networking, nonfiction, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, spiritual, spontaneous combustion, stream-of-consciousness, success, the writers life, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writingI’m not here to pretend to be some guru or act like I know anymore than you do because, believe me, the older I get, the less I know. Funny how that works when the world is running wild with “twenty-somethings” peddling Nirvana and life-coaching: really just give me $99 and I promise you’ll feel…
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2018 Reading Challenge: Reading Women Challenge
reveal yourself: what are some of your challenges, demands for 2018? I want the juicy details! let’s get through this together.