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O Sensei Roensch There was a time I considered myself “in training.” At the peak of my martial arts practice, I spent 10-12 hours a week with an enlightened, sanctioned, holisitic [...]

I spent yesterday afternoon with beloved poet, mentor, and friend Mendy Knott. She blogs at Hillpoet and if you’re looking for powerful, practical advice on creativity, her site is a great [...]

Along with a few thousand other people, my friends and I put in for a permit to hike The Wonderland Trail, a 93-mile loop that circumnavigates Mt. Rainier. In a random lottery drawing, our names [...]

I ran into a respected author at the gym yesterday. She happens to live in the same valley as I do, just across the river. She’d just returned from a trip to Europe, where she was able to [...]

(source) I spent a few short days in Boston last week as a guest to the Solstice MFA in Writing at Pine Manor College program. Although I’ve taught students with graduate degrees before, it [...]

Trying to ponder and shift the balance of activities and obligations in my life has reminded me how important it is to have “something else” I’m passionate about, other than [...]

I’ve enrolled in a 5-part online course sponsored by SynchCast called “Calling in Your Muse: Five Keys to a Creative Life.” The first class was free and the others were offered [...]

I’m very excited to share my new business model today, formalizing services I have been offering for four years. Writer at Large has long been my business name for tax purposes, though [...]

Slow and steady, change flickers on the horizon. By and large, I have been able to stop working after dinnertime for almost one week straight. This is a tremendous step in the [...]