I was recently asked about what has worked for me in building a regular writing practice. So I’ve pulled together some of the components...

To pick up where we left off last week: For me, the real deal about being kind to myself is all about being in touch with my own true...

“To thine own self be kind.” I mean REALLY TRULY kind. I mean radical kindness, real, radical self-compassion. The kind of kindness that...

When people ask me what I’m up to these days, I get all tongue tied and fumbly. I hem and haw about sort of being more or less kind of...

I’m doing something a little different today to honour my (recent) commitment to post on Thursdays: reposting something I posted on...

She stood at the counter in her tiny kitchen, frozen in the act of skinning ocean perch fillets for Brazilian fish stew, frozen by memory...

The trouble with silence is that it’s so hard to find. And because it’s so hard to find, we’re so not used to it. It makes us...

1. FROM A WRITING RETREAT THIS SUMMER Shimmering like white starburst fireworks, sun on gentle waves. Air is still. Calm before the...

She sat and sat and sat. This time, it was a good thing, because she’d actually gotten up out of the the chair by the door and was now...

Surrounded by emptiness, always, surrounded, bounded, filled with emptiness. I used to feel empty all the time. So I filled up with booze...