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- Memoir Contest…enter in!
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- “My Love Affair with Reels and Reality” By H. Peter McCabe
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- A 5 year love affair…
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- 4th Annual Women Inspiring Women Conference
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- A perfect day for a wine retreat…
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- Just announced! Palm Springs Location coming in December!
- Guest Blog by Diana Densmore – October 23, 2013
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- Holiday Luncheon December 9, 2013
- Any Day Melitas Wants…Melitas Gets…
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- October Classes begin on October 1st!
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- Melitas Update!
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- Update on the Big Bear Retreat 2013
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- Rerun…Mondays with Melitas…
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- Guest blog by Marlene Levine
- It’s a dogs life…
- 23 years…boy does time fly…
- Mondays with Melitas – August 5, 2013
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- Introducing Mr. Coia
- Touched by her kindness…
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- University of Minnesota
- 26 Years ago today…
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- A page a day…make a commitment to yourself…
- Mondays with Melitas – June 24, 2013
- Home “Sweat” Home
- Fabulous…Leftos Beach in Alonnosis, Greece
- My sweet good-bye…
- What comes to the page…
- Writing and Connecting in Greece
- Monday with Melitas – June 17, 2013
- Charming Old Village of Greece
- Culinary Delights…via Greece
- Greetings from Alonossis, Greece
- Four legged friends of Skiathos
- Greetings from Skiathos, Greece
- Mondays with Melitas – June 10, 2013
- Off to Greece!
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- Race #17 now a memory!
- Only one you…
- Amherst Training Report…
- Mondays with Melitas – May 27, 2013
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- The one that got away…catch it while you can!
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- Happy Mother’s Day!
- Word Power…
- A connected world…
- Cancun Here We Come!
- Happy 95th Birthday Melitas!
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- Mondays with Melitas – April 15, 2013
- Together again…
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- San Francisco Half Marathon…check!
- Mondays with Melitas (Tuesday, April 2, 2013)
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- Guest blog by Jennifer Dwyer
- Looking backward…
- Each time…
- The self laid bare…
- Perspective…
- Mondays with Melitas – March 25, 2012
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson – March 22, 2013
- Wisdom…
- Mondays with Melitas – March 18, 2013
- Scar Tissue…
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson – March 12, 2013
- Mondays with Melitas – March 11, 2013
- Luncheon and Workshops coming Friday and Saturday!
- Keep your eyes open for moments of wonder…
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- Small things that are really great things…
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- Guest blog by Patricia Wilkes
- Reasons…
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- Nature’s Flu Shots
- Guest blog by Patricia Erickson
- Mondays with Melitas – February 11, 2013
- Never Forget…
- An amazing lineup…
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- Nearly 4 years later…
- The Road to Success
- Mondays with Melitas – February 4, 2013
- Guest blog by Diana Densmore
- What makes a good memoir writer…
- The question why…
- The internal memory…
- Mondays with Melitas – January 7, 2013
- Impressions…
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- 2013 Challenge: A page a day…
- 1,063 miles…
- Who are you rooting for?
- 26 Acts of Kindness
- Running and Contemplation…
- Mondays with Melitas – December 24, 2012
- Santa Paws 2012
- Notice the small things in life…
- Testing 1…2…3…
- What brings me joy…
- Medal number 12 with my Coach!
- Inner Peace
- Mondays with Melitas – December 17, 2012
- Triggers…
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- Comfort…
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- Check that off my bucket list…
- Smiling Faces from Half Marathon #11
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- Half Marathon #11 for 2012!
- Powerball…
- When did it all begin?
- Teaching my mom…
- 48 years ago today…
- Mondays with Melitas – November 26, 2012
- You are invited to a very special luncheon!
- What is on your to-do list?
- Mondays with Melitas – November 19, 2012
- Writing as an artist…
- Holiday Luncheon!
- Road Trips and Old Movies – guest blog by Diana Densmore
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- Santa Barbara International Half Marathon – check!
- Mondays with Melitas – November 5, 2012
- Guest blog by Pedro McCabe
- Discovering
- Mondays with Melitas – October 29, 2012
- Creative Energies Combined…
- Guest blog by Diana Densmore
- Watch a 30 minute show on TV featuring me and a few of my students!
- Mondays with Melitas – October 22, 2012
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson – Of Grave Concern
- What are you waiting for?
- Always Remember
- Better than Therapy…
- Looking back…a year later…
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson
- Mondays with Melitas – October 15, 2012
- Share your love!
- Ethical Wills
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- You Write Your Story…
- Mondays with Melitas – October 8, 2012
- Half Marathon Number 9…now just a memory…well sort of…
- Back to your birthplace…
- A different way of seeing something…
- Being more like my dog…
- Compassion…
- Mondays with Melitas – October 1, 2012
- We all have a story to tell…
- Guest blog by Pedro
- Fall Workshops start next week! Registration closes on Friday!
- With Open Eyes…
- Jennifer Lauck workshop filling up!
- A day of reconciliation
- Mondays with Melitas – September 24, 2012
- Are you ready for some football?
- Competition
- Fall workshops right around the corner!
- Saturday Workshop September 29
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- Healing Heart Workshops
- Reflections on 9-11
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- Fall Workshop Schedule and Descriptions!
- Who is in your life?
- Life Lessons told by Dr. Suess
- Memories from my friend…Teresa
- Mondays with Melitas – September 3, 2012
- Me, Myself and I
- Hallway moments of our lives…
- Gracie, an amazing dog!
- Mondays with Melitas – August 27, 2012
- Happiness!
- Courtney and the Cat
- Listening and Learning
- Memoir Workshop this Saturday!
- Mondays with Melitas – August 20, 2012
- Guest blog by Lynne Spreen
- Mondays with Melitas – On Tuesday!
- Mondays with Melitas – August 13, 2012
- My one year running anniversary!
- Jennifer Lauck Retreat Workshop
- Happy Birthday to my youngest son!
- Oh the stories we have to tell and share!
- Contemplation…Examination…
- Mondays with Melitas – August 6, 2012
- Winery Amazing!
- Wise Words
- Olympic Fever
- Half Marathon #7 – Completed!
- Courtney’s Kayaking Adventure
- A Journey in Nature
- Fur Babies
- Mondays with Melitas…this week on Tuesday!
- Mondays with Melitas – July 16, 2012
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- Spending time with my daughter!
- Working on goals…
- If only…
- Being creative…
- Changing your location, changes your attitude!
- Super Summer Saturdays!
- Mondays with Melitas – June 11, 2012
- A successful half marathon in San Diego!
- Mondays with Melitas – June 4, 2012
- 4th half marathon this year and my birthday boy!
- Beautiful new graduates!!
- Working towards goals!
- Lashon Hatov…
- Mondays with Melitas – May 28, 2012
- The beauty of a hug…
- Mondays with Melitas – May 14, 2012
- Guest blog Meanest Mom in the World
- Mondays with Melitas – May 7, 2012
- Noticing Synchronicity – by Daily Om
- The beauty of time…
- The beauty of family
- Learning new things…
- Mondays with Melitas – April 30, 2012
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- Guest blog by Peter McCabe
- Mondays with Melitas – April 16, 2012
- My newest batch of graduates!
- Pure Joy!
- What causes you to stand up and pay attention?
- Writing about firsts…
- Mondays with Melitas – April 9, 2012
- Going to my first Seder!
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- Guest blog by Daily Om…Womanhood
- As though it were yesterday…
- Mondays with Melitas – March 26, 2012
- Guest blog by Daily Om – March 21, 2012
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- Paying attention to what really matters…
- Grateful for the gifts…
- The constancies of our lives…
- Guest blog by Daily Om – March 13, 2012
- Mondays with Melitas – March 12, 2012
- What tugs at your heart?
- Jennifer Lauck is coming very, very soon!
- Guest blog by Daily Om – The Truth Within
- Writing is in the rewriting…
- Mondays with Melitas – March 5, 2012
- Mark Twains thoughts…
- Writing about your ancestors…
- Some thoughts on an article…
- What do you celebrate in your writing?
- Guest blog by Daily Om – February 29, 2012
- Guest blog by Melitas’ friend Georgia
- Mondays with Melitas – February 27, 2012
- What do you choose to embrace?
- Guest blog by DD Gore
- Eat to live…Live to eat…
- The joy of a well planned day…
- Jennifer Lauck Workshop!
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- Guest blog by Daily Om – Below the Surface
- Take the time to reflect…
- I love…love!
- Mondays with Melitas – February 13, 2012
- The gift of running…
- Pictures spark our memories…
- Relax in the present…
- Jennifer Lauck Memoir Writer’s Workshop
- Mondays with Melitas – February 6, 2012
- Our connections with each other…
- Writing daily…
- Loving your life…
- Treat yourself well…
- Guest blog by Diana Densmore
- Taking the long road…
- Mondays with Melitas – January 30, 2012
- Family…
- The Power of Speech…
- Writing Close Up…
- Guest blog by Daily Om
- Guest blog by Jane Harris
- Mondays with Melitas – January 23, 2012
- Connecting together…
- Up close and personal with your writing…
- Women do Inspire Women…
- The author of Blackbird…
- The wonders of a friendship…or should I say wenders??
- Inter Valley Health Plan
- A complete success!
- Mondays with Melitas – January 16, 2012
- Running today…
- One day until the big day!
- Heading out today for Phoenix!!
- Have you read this yet??
- Guest blog by Daily Om…Thoughts…
- Convertible days…
- Mondays with Melitas – January 9, 2012
- What matters to you?
- I delivered a mensch at home 23 years ago…
- Stepping over the line…and outside the box…
- Now I get it!!
- Who is your editor?
- A Tear and a Smile by Khalil Gibron
- Mondays with Melitas – January 2, 2012
- A look back upon what I wrote a year ago today…
- Running, walking or strolling through 2012?
- It is nearly the end of 2011
- The gift of contemplation…
- Guest blog by Daily Om – Feeling Our Words
- 2 days of no pictures!! oh my!!
- Mondays with Melitas – December 26, 2011
- The Gift of Patience…
- Top of the World!
- Making memories…
- Read to learn what you like in memoir…
- What are you thinking?
- Happy Hanukkah!
- Mondays with Melitas – December 19, 2011
- Happy Times with Friends…
- What goes up…must come down…
- What resonates with you emotionally?
- 3 out of 4 ain’t bad…
- Gone too soon…
- Adopted families…
- Mondays with Melitas – December 12, 2011
- Speak your mind!
- The Content of our Conversations…
- Memories of the season…
- Running and Grieving…
- Saying good-bye too soon…
- How do you reflect?
- Mondays with Melitas – December 5, 2011
- Surround yourself with beautiful people!
- Listening to Melitas…
- Listen carefully…
- Moving through life gracefully!
- The Surprises of Life!
- Finding what you love to do, then doing it!
- Mondays with Melitas – November 28, 2011
- Casa de Courtney
- A great reminder for us all…
- Thankfulness!
- Moving forward with conviction…
- What a ride…
- Mondays with Melitas – November 21, 2011
- awwww…feel the peace…
- Loving each new day…
- Wisdom…
- My feral cats…
- A piece of who I am…
- A Dog’s Purpose?
- Mondays with Melitas – October 14, 2011
- A perfect gift!
- Authenticity…
- A letter that touched my heart…
- Fear Factor…
- An unawakened soul…
- The Friendships of Women…
- Mondays with Melitas – November 7, 2011
- Another great idea!
- It’s raining cats and dogs…and there were poodles in the road…
- Guest Blog by Daily Om – Let Go and Let Flow
- A special message to Namaste Bryce Rose Pergament…
- Guest Blog by Diana Densmore
- Guest Blog by Dorys Forray
- Mondays with Melitas – October 31, 2011
- You heard it here first…
- Thanks to…
- What do you choose to remember?
- What makes you smile?
- Running through your life…
- Guest blog by Katrina Bias
- Mondays with Melitas – October 24, 2011
- Who is your “Coal”??
- As we grow up…
- Friendships and Memoirs…
- Happy Anniversary!
- How to be a Mensch…
- Lucky…
- Mondays with Melitas – October 17, 2011
- Guest Blog by Daily Om-Digging Deep for Healing
- Picking up the pieces…
- Beautiful People!
- What do you cherish?
- Your shadow self…
- Your Legacy…
- Mondays with Melitas – October 10, 2011
- Ever wonder what total cuteness looks like?
- Ever wonder what pure joy looks like?
- Guest blog by Daily Om- Conscious Decisions
- Listen Carefully…
- Pushing through…
- Friends supporting friends…
- Mondays with Melitas – October 3, 2011
- Deadlines…deadlines…
- Women Inspiring Women Conference!
- Guest blog by Daily Om…affirmations!
- Are you ready for your closeup?
- Connect with your inner Birba!
- Go for it!!
- Mondays with Melitas – September 26, 2011
- Smile!!
- Courtney in training…
- Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
- My Tribe Celebrating our 1 Year Anniversary!
- Where is the love?
- Surround yourself with love…
- Mondays with Melitas – September 19, 2011
- What makes you laugh?
- Feel the softness of the grass again!
- Guest blog by Daily Om: You are who you are, not what you do
- A Shining Example…
- Jewish for a Day…
- Guest blog by Daily Om: Permission to simply be…
- Mondays with Melitas – September 12, 2011
- A Different World…
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson
- Give Time…Time…
- When Pain gets in your way…
- What is your path?
- Growth and Change…
- Mondays with Melitas – September 5, 2011
- Oh really??
- What are you searching for?
- What is your Path?
- When Memories Emerge…
- When Life Seems Unfair…
- Make it Happen!!
- Mondays with Melitas – August 29, 2011
- The Warden…
- Make your Words a Gift…
- Unstoppable…
- The Beauty of Time…
- August 27th Workshop
- Tuesday with Tammy…
- Mondays with Melitas – August 22, 2011
- Why I Believe Every One Should Write…
- Guest blog by Daily Om – Staying Conscious
- Understanding One Another…
- Guest Blog by Daily Om – Healing with Hurt
- Shopping with Melitas…
- Just breathe…
- Mondays with Melitas – August 15, 2011
- My Role Models
- The Joy of a Brother…
- Are you ready for some football??
- Guest blog by UCLA Study on Friendship Among Women
- Happy Birthday Courtney!
- My baby turns 21 today!
- Mondays with Melitas – August 8, 2011
- Guest blog by Daily Om
- 40 Years Ago Today…
- Sweetness!
- The Fountain of Youth has been Discovered!
- My Grandpa Snyder…
- Permissive parents: Curb your brats By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor
- Mondays with Melitas – August 1, 2011
- Writing about Love…
- Writing about Firsts…
- Passion…
- When opposites attract…
- When are you “Home?”
- Visiting your past…
- Mondays with Melitas – July 25, 2011
- Guest blog by Sally Logan
- Could that be Superman?
- Aww Sugar Sugar…
- Memories from Childhood
- Linked In…
- Guest blog by Terri Ten Eyck
- Why I write…
- Mondays with Melitas – July 18, 2011
- Ahhhhh Accomplishment…
- Guest blog by Lorie Schkud
- Brotherhood…
- The Legacy of Betty Ford
- Connection and Creativity…
- A Chance Meeting…
- Mondays with Melitas – July 11, 2011
- The beauty of Facebook…
- Happy Birthday Sis!
- I just called to say I love you…
- Guest blog by Courtney Coia
- The scare of a lifetime…
- Guest blog by Daily Om
- Maggie Oh Maggie…
- Mondays with Melitas July 4, 2011
- Cruising…
- Guest blog by Linda Hiney
- Love these quotes…
- Love me…
- Awwww…so blessed…
- Baby Oh Baby!!
- Set your intentions…
- Celebration!!
- Choices, choices, choices…
- Do You See Me?
- I See You…
- Guest blog by Daily OM-Ahhhh, nature!
- Do you hear the whisper?
- What are your priorities?
- Guest blog by Daily OM- Perceptions
- Who do you go to?
- A Message to Myself…
- Mondays with Melitas
- Doubly Blessed…
- What a dog!
- Happy Birthday to my sister, Sandy!
- Come to the edge…
- Half way there! 30 day challenge!
- Guest Blog by Melitas Forster
- Be a tourist!
- Oh, the choices we make…
- Choose your friends wisely…
- Day 10 of the 30 day challenge!
- Nothings by chance!
- Guest Blog from my student Wendy Price
- Feel the love…
- Loving-Kindness and loving kindness…
- What are you thirsting for?
- 26 years ago today…
- Awww, the joys of life…
- Creativity and Other Life Qualities…
- Use your words…
- Memorial Day!
- What is your challenge?
- Be a gift…
- Surround yourself with love!
- Hats off to Magdalena Molina!
- Word Association Writing Exercise
- Reading helps writing…
- If only…
- Finding your bliss…
- Celebrate tool for your tool kit
- Back to basics tool for your tool kit…
- Happiness tool for your tool kit
- Look for those rainbows…
- Appreciation tool for your tool kit
- Guest blog from Daily Om
- Don’t be afraid of change…
- My Fearless Foursome!
- The tool of reflection…
- Dream tool for your tool kit
- Tools in your toolkit…
- Best Friends…
- Mother’s Day reflections…
- The secret to success…
- Nothing sweeter…
- Opportunities to heal…
- Explore your experiences…
- Intro: Memoir for Women
- It’s all a matter of your perspective…
- What is your song? Are you singing it?
- A gift…
- State of Gratitude…
- Create the space for communication
- Take no moment for granted…
- Are you sprouting?
- What is your divine surrender?
- Namaste!
- Your Life is your Garden…
- Expand Your Playlist…
- The Flow of Life…
- Finding Your Tribe (from Daily OM)
- Guest blog by Joan Suter
- Baby Hummingbirds!
- Guest blog by Sandra Donohue
- Cheers to my new graduates!
- Fur Children
- Guest blog by Pat Erickson
- Family by marriage
- Family of origin…
- Pressing forward…
- Young memories…
- Writing your new life story…
- Hiking your journey…
- My recent article in The Desert Sun
- Expectations
- Discovering what lies within…
- One of the greatest challenges…
- P.S.
- The Greatest Gift
- Saying good-bye…
- The whispers of your soul…
- Speaking (and writing!) what matters most…
- Has your time come?
- Journey of connection…
- Cultivating our writing…
- We each have a unique story to share…
- The Power of Persuasion…
- The substance of our lives…
- The Misconception of Memoir Writing
- Still feeling inspired!
- Traveling Memoir Coach this summer!
- Perhaps the best thing…
- Change the way you see the world…
- Appreciating the variety of our life
- Your story…
- “Your Memoir” workshop coming soon!
- Inspiring Conference…
- Dreams really do come true…
- Combine life examination with creative expression…
- Balance…
- Questions to ask yourself…
- Our words share what is true for us…
- Writing is a healing endeavor…
- Writing is a healing endeavor…
- Writing helps define us…
- Our stories ground us and connect us…
- A gift seen through your eyes…
- What Inspires You?
- A reminder of why I write…
- Writing reminds us to slow down…
- The Gift of Story
- It’s About Making a Difference…
- Up Close and Personal…
- New Year, New You, New Me…
- Reflections…
- The Power of Words
- Memories for your memoirs…
- The Most Meaningful Writing of All…
- Imagine what can be…
- Experience the beautiful moments of life…
- You learn to write by writing…
- Writing with pictures…
- Wherever you are, be there…
- Surround yourself…
- Unexpected Blessings…
- Writing for Wellness…
- Wine, Women and Writing…
- A Mitzvah…
- Loving all animals…
- Amazing women…
- The joy of sisterhood
- Your hearts desire…
- Touched by a blog…
- What do you treasure?
- Discovering Others…
- Friendships of Women…
- The road less traveled…
- Who inspires you?
- Photograph memories…
- Rediscovering Memories…
- Rediscovering beauty…
- Writing with Light…
- The Art of Gratitude
- Our Divine human skill of artistic expression
- Awareness..
- Fully Present…
- A map of your life
- What is your vantage point?
- Become immersed…
- Road rash to zen…
- Blocks…
- Awaken that creative spark!
- A Shift…
- Overcoming apathy…
- Women Inspiring Women…
- Growth means…
- Movement in our lives…
- Embracing the ebb and flow of our lives…
- A bike, a hill and an mp3 player…
- A key to living fully…
- Life asks us to let go…
- Writing is a metaphor for life’s movement…
- Movement…
- Symmetry…
- The beauty of balance…
- Honor your own individual uniqueness…
- Digest and Express!
- Being open to the journey…
- Intention Deficit Disorder
- A new season coming soon…
- The passing of time…
- Creativity takes courage!
- Run the race…
- Honor the value of writing…
- Community…
- Our Path…
- Contentment…
- Examination…
- Ahhh…gratitude…
- Contemplation…
- Synchronicity…
- Your surround sound…
- No place like home…
- Routines…
- Contemplation on the course…
- Vulnerability…
- Exploring beliefs…
- Being open…
- Steps to authenticity…
- Shaping our mind…
- Trusting the process…
- The gear shift of life…
- The key to rebalancing…
- Decluttering our closets and our minds…
- An effective way to rebalance…
- How our memoirs help us rebalance…
- Sometimes a memoir page is most helpful when…
- 92 years young…
- Lessons of balance
- The true gift is the journey…
- www.iloveauthors.com
- June 30 Workshop
- The gift of the journey…
- Living in a moment…
- Opening up…
- Memories from the past…
- Time on a larger scale…
- Expression of my truth…
- Kairos
- The Paradox…
- New Summer Workshops…
- Feral Cat Luncheon on Thursday at the IW Club with Maggie Downs
- Women of the Green Generation
- Recycle your memories!
- A common thread…
- What matters…
- Resonance…
- The path of writing…
- You are as good as your word…
- Life is wonderful…
- Maggie Downs Article on Sunday!
- Courtney’s First Scooter Ride!
- San Juan Capistrano
- Beautiful Day In Laguna Beach
- Hot, Rich and Green
- Memories are everywhere!
- Create and Manifest!
- Cleansing and Clearing!
- TLC Luncheon Photos May 21, 2010
- An unexamined life…
- Smashing Success!!
- What are you manifesting?
- National League of American Pen Women
- Local writers agree: It isn’t easy
- Desert Sun
- My first published student!
- What resonates with you?
- A shiny dime…
- Manifest
- Visualize and Write!
- Morning Rituals…
- Eat well, live well, thrive!
- Expressing our truth
- A meditative experience
- Focus our connection…
- Writing helps us…
- Embrace all the gifts of life…
- What writing can be…
- Writing is…
- We are linked…
- Ultimately it is our connections…
- We are fed by our memories…
- Mr. Wolf…
- Coincidence? Naw….
- Bask in our connection
- Shared experience
- Moving beyond…
- Virus-Smirus…
- Never alone…
- Community
- Reminders…
- The window…
- Only one me…only one you…
- The Universe…
- Know thyself…
- A special space
- Hiking and Thinking…
- No “right” and No “wrong”
- Seeing “me”…
- One of my reasons…
- Respond…
- Stop and listen…
- In the quiet…
- Listen…
- A mystery…
- Your voice
- Choices…
- Knowing your true self…
- Meeting the “doctor”
- Authentic writing…
- The art of everyday…
- Who would have thought…
- Embrace the surprises…
- Looking for moments…
- Welcoming surprises!
- Stimulating your creativity
- Give yourself permission…
- Valuable lesson on color
- Colors in our lives…
- Coming alive…
- Our words…
- Writing is a doing activity…
- The process…
- The Writing Process
- A glimpse…
- The Journey of Writing
- A universal experience
- Creating…
- Giving memories and hope…
- The Gift of Story
- Both perspectives…
- Breaking a code…
- The wonder of books…
- Handwritten letters…
- Our vision…
- It’s Complicated…
- Discovering Yourself
- Details…
- Mel and Mel…
- Discovering others…
- The Journey Home
- Live, Love, Laugh…
- C-Dog
- Being grateful…
- Support your local library
- Love what you do…
- Amazing movie…
- Lamenting with Lamott
- Look for those moments
- Art of gratitude
- Visual images
- Gaining perspective
- Creative sparks…
- The great impetus…
- Growth…
- Change…
- Letting go…
- Thinking like a writer…
- Give yourself permission
- Writing regularly…
- Writing your life…
- Our memory…
- Holiday Luncheon
- Happy December!
- Food coma…
- Birthday Salutations!
- The art of thankfulness
- The best birthday week…ever!
- Wine tasting in Paso Robles
- Hats off to the Desert Sun!
- whew…
- Find your passion…
- Junior Writers Guild
- Friendships of women…
- Intuition…
- Simple acts of kindness…
- Ode to Claire…
- writing workshop happy hour…
- sunflower seeds…
- I know, I know…
- Quite the uproar…
- What defines you?
- Authenticity…
- Listen to the tail…
- The bond of sisterhood
- Life is movement
- Halloween “memoiries”
- Palm Springs Writers Guild
- Finding balance
- The beauty of balance…
- Think project, not process…
- Tapping into my best…
- Being open to the journey…
- Creating…
- Just show up…
- Living Creatively…
- Getting down the story
- National League of American Pen Women
- October 17, 2009
- October 15, 2009
- October 14, 2009
- October 13, 2009
- October 8, 2009
- October 6, 2009
- October 3, 2009
- October 1, 2009
- August 26, 2009
- My Best Thoughts…
- Summer almost gone!
- June 26, 2009
- June 22, 2009
- Monday, May 11
- Mother’s Day
- April Update
- Hiking Club for my Women Writers!
- February!
- upcoming luncheon
- Happy Holidays!
- Happy Holidays
- My new blog!
