The Barn Project
Writing Process
Last day of retreat. I hate when retreats end. I want more time to write, and to listen to these amazing people who somehow find my house and the circle…
Nields
The Barn Project
The Big Idea
Writing Process
My house is full of writers. I am sitting in Couchland North; two others are in Couchland South. Writers are at my dining room table, in my music parlor and…
Dog
Writing Process
Somehow, getting this new puppy has lifted my depression and made me optimistic about the future. I can’t tell if this is just delusion, or a real lifting of the…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
…Death kept following, tracking us down At least I heard your bluebird sing Now somebody’s got to show their hand Time is an enemy I know you’re long gone; I…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl If, on the night of June 2nd, you heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from a neighborhood in Northampton, that would…
Music
Nields
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Writing Process
After our big 25th anniversary shows at the Iron Horse last weekend, I was so tired I thought I would never recover. As I age, it seems performing takes more…
Journal
Writing Process
We have squirrels in our house. I didn’t want to tell you this, as it creeps some people out and many of you reading this blog have actually come to my…
Journal
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #8 “How you do anything is how you do everything.”-R. Rohr. This is a great insight into character development. Just saying…. Daily Prompt #9: “To be rooted is…
Journal
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #13 For A Nurse In this fragile frontier-place, your kindness Becomes a light that consoles the brokenhearted, Awakens within desperate storms That oasis of serenity that calls The…
