Writing from the Womb Available ONLINE

ANNOUNCING For the first time Writing from the Womb will be available as an online course. I am so excited to be able to offer a course where writers from all over the world can participate. All you need is internet and a laptop and you are part of this powerful community of writers. Because…

Video: Writing from the Womb Intro Workshop

Please know that these writing sessions are sacred. Please credit and cite any quote you grab from here. This workshop was magical. https://youtu.be/-hEbJB0ZNV8 Thank you to every single writer who participated. Thank you Dominican Writers and Word Up Books for providing a space for us to come as we are. Your comments are appreciated. Subscribing…

Feeling Free and Clear ~ Day 2 #creativeclarity #socialmediapurge

Reading time 2 minutes and 40 seconds   Good morning family!   I am officially off of social media and I must say that I am feeling so many strange sensations. I have taken breaks before but this time it feels like a break up. Facebook, twitter and Instagram have become this toxic relationship that…

Patience is a Virtue!

How can we be more patient with ourselves? How can we be more patient with those around us--those who do not get what it is we are doing--those who are not feeling the NEW us? Today’s episode is about patience… we want things when we want them. We want that instant gratification! When you want…

Depriving Ourselves of Good

What happens when you block the good that wants to enter your life? Are you sending it all back? Are you rejecting the ideas that are brilliant, afraid to take a risk, afraid to go for it, afraid of endings, or afraid to really have what you deserve? In today’s episode I meditate on this…

Things Will Unstitch Us…

Excerpts from Chris Abani's Ted Talk on Humanity: "This woman -- during the Biafran war, we were caught in the war. It was my mother with five little children. It takes her one year, through refugee camp after refugee camp, to make her way to an airstrip where we can fly out of the country.…

What makes life worthwhile?

"I'm always trying to write about the most important things that people do. The places in their lives where they feel the greatest stress, the places where they feel the greatest passion and how they deal with those things and how they survive them and make their lives go on. Being in love with somebody…

The Value of a Great Story!

"I value story above all else. I'm talking about my written work-in the movies I value the images-but in the books I value the story. The story has its own meaning. A story has its own significance. And sometimes the characters in that story can almost become transparent. This is true in fairytales, for instance.…

Balancing Vulnerability with Transformation

"African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves -- how as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. The question is, how do I balance narratives that are wonderful with…

When the words in a dream are loud

"So much of what we do in those hours when we're actually making sentences, inventing characters and feeling our way through the threads of a plot, is hunch and feel-half unconscious and somewhat autohypnotic. Those rituals of getting ready to write seem to conduce a kind of trance state. ...I am a poet of awareness…