Several of us have been meeting weekly at a friend’s home on DeMun in a class, “Expanding the Heart: The Practice of Gratitude.” We’re keeping gratitude journals. Here’s a recent entry from mine. Thank you,…
It’s easy to be in the present moment With Anne Fitzgerald I want to listen I want to be receptive I want to assure her That Jesus was right: You, Annie Fitzgerald, are the light…
Dear Bella Levenshteyn As I continue going through my basement piles and stacks I came across the following Which fell out of a file I hadn’t looked through In many years Seems even back in…
AED “Health for All” Conference Saint Louis University BSC 254D 2:15-3:00 p.m. Facilitated by Mark Chmiel Deep Breathing 13.7 million: number of Americans with a history of cancer at the start of 2012 1,660,290: number…
Working on my obsession In the kitchen on Spring Avenue Alongside Sarah Bollinger and Lindsay Sihilling All of us fingering our laptops with brio –Go for broke!
To encourage Ann in her possibly imminent publishing pursuits To begin in earnest sequel to Dear Layla—I just bought three black Moleskines, first objective, fill them with daydreams of what’s going on with Carla Nguyen…
Dear Mark, Here is my reflection of Dear Layla, I thought at first that I should apologize for the scatter-brained style of writing I’m sure this letter will take. Then I thought, he probably doesn’t…
for Emily, Kelley, and Lindsay 1. In reality every reader is, while she is reading, the reader of her own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to…
“Writing meditation – possibly one of the most valuable things I’ve ever learned. Thanks, Dr. C!”
I could identify with some of the following, as regards both The Book of Mev and Dear Layla…. “Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people…