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Tag Archives: Creativity
Poetry Manuscript Accepted for Publication
I am thrilled to announce that my chapbook manuscript, entitled Across An Aqueous Moon: Travels in Autism, has been accepted for publication! After a long, hot summer filled with plenty of rejections, Finishing Line Press sent me an email last … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, My Life, News, Publications
Tagged Autism, Creativity, Gratitude, Manuscript, Memoir, Milestones, Poetry, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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Embracing Fire
I’ve written before that I’m an Aries, which is a fire sign, born in the Year of the Dragon (more fire). I’m also a rare INTJ in Meyers-Briggs terminology, which Newstrology converts to a dragon (still more fire). Could the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, My Life
Tagged Acceptance, Aries, Authenticity, Aveda, Creativity, Energy, Fire, Meyers-Briggs, Newstrology, Passion, Power, pure-fume, Shame, Transformation, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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Third Draft of My Memoir is Done!!
It’s been a long, strange spring. First I developed a bizarre thumb infection that rendered my right hand virtually useless. I was forced to take more antibiotics than I care to think about and soaked my bloated digit six times … Continue reading
Posted in My Life, News
Tagged 50th Birthday, Creativity, Draft #3, Expectations, Memoir, Milestones, Poetry, Single Parent, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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Autism Awareness Event at the UC Davis MIND Institute
This week I am busy stressing out over the upcoming autism awareness event at the UC Davis MIND Institute. I will be a featured reader at this wonderful event which is sponsored by the Sacramento Poetry Center. I’ll be reading both poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Autism
Tagged Art, Autism, Autism Awareness, Creativity, Memoir, Poetry, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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An Unexpected Detour
Back in November 2014, I launched my second push to complete the third draft of my memoir. My goal was to edit the first 100 pages and rewrite the second 100 pages. By the end of the year I planned … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Creativity, My Life
Tagged 50th Birthday, Autism, Connie Post, Creativity, Detours, Expectations, Finishing Line Press, Goals, Memoir, Poetry, Thumb, Thumb Infection, Unplanned Life, Writing Life
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Let’s Put the Awe Back in Awesome
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have the multi-talented Jill Shargaa. A seasoned comedian, she is also an illustrator and designer who brings a pulp sensibility to her work. Shargaa’s comedy career took off in 1979, when she … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Tuesdays with TED
Tagged Awesome, Comedy, Creativity, Jill Shargaa, Writing Life
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Sculpting Waves in Wood and Time
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin, whose moving sculptures combine the logic of math with the sensuousness of nature. Margolin makes wave-like sculptures that undulate, spiral, bob and dip in gloriously natural-seeming ways, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Tuesdays with TED
Tagged Art, Creativity, Kinetic Sculpture, Reuben Margolin, Waves, Writing Life
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Be An Artist, Right Now!
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have Korean novelist Young-ha Kim. Kim weaves tales that speak to the thrills and challenges of young Koreans in our increasingly globalized and ever-changing world. Young-ha Kim wishes that his eighth grade … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Other Writers, Tuesdays with TED
Tagged Art, Authenticity, Creativity, Family, Fiction, Inner Child, Memoir, Poetry, Story, Writing Life, Young-ha Kim
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The Politics of Fiction
Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have novelist Elif Shafak, who is the most-read female author in Turkey. She explicitly defies description. Her writing blends East and West, feminism and tradition, the local and the global, Sufism and … Continue reading