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I am inspired by every piece of writing I hear in Shelter Workshops. Giving a prompt, writing (usually for just around 10 minutes), and then coming back…
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January is an Adjective
Don’t you think? A feeling, an experience, every year it is more than a word. Dark winter days are made more beautiful by the sound of rain, soft snow…
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Christmas Poems
Regardless of your religious traditions or beliefs, it’s hard not to be drawn in by the idea of God becoming man in the form of a small, fuzzy…
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Revenant
This week in one of my workshops we used random dictionary words for prompts. Glory used the word Revenant, and I have been thinking of that word ever…
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Simple Scenes
A workshop friend once told me he loved to hear my writing about Iowa. This surprised me because my Iowa writing feels so familiar and simple to me, as…
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What If...
This week in my Shelter Writers Workshops I used a simple prompt for us, What if…? I was reminded how much churning is going on inside us all at any…
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Yesterday In the Kitchen
You ask me with your eyes and when you feel safe, with your words am I okay? is this okay do you love me? and I must have forgotten in the drudge of the…
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Thoughts, poems, and prose by myself and writers in my workshops

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