Tag Archives: Poetry

Have you tried Bard?

Bard is the AI chatbot by Google. You can ask Bard all sorts of things. Bard edits, gives ideas, tells you facts and gives links to help deepen your understanding. Bard has great potential to support educational and creative endeavors! I say that as an optimistic progressivist. Here’s a fun example. I asked Bard toContinue reading “Have you tried Bard?”

National Daughter’s Day

Phenomenal Woman BY MAYA ANGELOU Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size    But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips,    The stride of my step,    The curlContinue reading “National Daughter’s Day”

Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton Wooow! I love this quote!! And so of course I had to look up who Edith Wharton was. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction! The name of the novel thatContinue reading “Edith Wharton”

On Writing a Daily Journal

I have been working on journaling everyday for years. At first I journaled all in the same place whether it was a novel journal or a daily thought, or research effort. Then I separated them all. And now I have a place where daily journaling is it’s own thing. This year I was really diggingContinue reading “On Writing a Daily Journal”

Choosing What Feedback

Writing groups provide the “Best way to learn to choose what feedback is important.” What do I mean by this? Well, let me start with a little writer’s community gossip. There’s a story going around that Hans Christian Andersen fell on his face and sobbed from getting critical feedback about his writing. (I’ve been there,Continue reading “Choosing What Feedback”

Get Perspective

I’ve been talking about writing groups for a couple days now so I thought tonight would be a good night to share another writers input on writing groups. Author Joani Elliott says something I love. She says,”Writing can be a lonely endeavor and a good writing group can help provide needed strength, feedback and perspectiveContinue reading “Get Perspective”

Let’s Take Some Time

to appreciate this Pocahontas song. “What I love most about rivers isYou can’t step in the same river twiceThe water’s always changing, always flowingBut people, I guess, can’t live like thatWe all must pay a priceTo be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowingWhat’s around the riverbendWaiting just around the riverbend I look onceContinue reading “Let’s Take Some Time”

A Message From My Child

“And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’” Matthew 18:3 This weekend I had such an inspiring message sent through my little one. Let me tell you, I saw this woman’s conference and I had to go. I signed up, followed allContinue reading “A Message From My Child”