A journal of Writer's Retreats

As you write today, give yourself permission to play with color, experimenting with shades you wouldn’t ordinarily use or put next to each other.  As you let yourself appreciate the

We all have our blue days and red days and peach days.  One of the most powerful lessons of color is that it reminds us not to turn our lives-or

What teaches us diversity better than color?  A color can be perfectly green or perfectly blue, but it is never The Perfect Color.  One color cannot compete with other colors. 

I think one of the reasons many of us are drawn to writing is that it makes us feel alive.  Suddenly, we start noticing details we had previously overlooked.  As

Although photographs can be a huge component of our memoir pages, they do not have the intimacy of our words.  Our words share what is true for us.  Our words

Writing is delving, probing, asking:  What really matters?  What does this mean?  How can I tell my story?  Writing is a doing activity – full of the mind, the hand,

The writing process is not always beautiful.  When we search for our truth, we may find ugliness, too.  We see our insecurities and fears.  We see the darkness.  But when

The writing process is not always easy. Deep, exploratory writing can be exhausting.  There are times I would rather sit and “watch” than do the work of analyzing and reflecting. 

Since writing is an action that helps define us, I think this is why Julia Cameron includes writing as a basic step in her book The Artist’s Way.  To become

Writing is an action that helps define us.  In searching for the right words, we search for meaning inside ourselves.  We listen to the voice within that speaks our truth.