Creative Writing
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Why Wait for the Eulogy?
In December, a dear friend turned sixty. She and her husband were throwing a party to celebrate, inviting friends and…
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By Invitation Only
This story is a “round-robin story,” meaning it was created collaboratively by writers in the Tuesday Night Writing Workshop. Each…
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First Frost
In the spring of 1961, Dad bought a postage stamp farm in Western Pennsylvania’s hill country. We…
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Autumn Days
Pipitone red & gold leaves, crisp air tell me autumn is here – they crunch under my feet…
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My Mantra for the past 40 years: The Influence of Roethke’s The Waking:
I thought I would close these musings on poetry and the journey of life with a poem that I first…
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The Difficult Work of Recovering Love for One’s Self After Love Has Ended
One of the more common and heartbreaking reasons that many people decide to enter therapy is due to the end…
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The Difficult Work of Love
When I first see couples who are struggling in their relationship, I sometimes share this line from the poet Rilke…
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Leaving Home and Learning to Listen to Your Own Voice
Leaving home and starting to separate and individuate from our families is one of the first, most difficult, and exciting…
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How Did I Get Here? What Have I Learned?
I’m grateful I’m learning To look back on all my Bumbling, misguided failures And see them…
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