Archive for December, 2009
Put Story Poems in Your Memoir Tool Box
In February I’ll be presenting a workshop at the Story Circle Network Memoir Conference in Austin. Here’s a more detailed look at my workshop. The post on the Telling Her Stories blog is titled: “Put Story Poems in Your Memoir Tool Box.”
Sightings @ Squaw Creek
The quirky makes life juicy, no? –a woman swimming in the outdoor heated pool wearing a wet suit and a thick stocking hat. –children huddling inside a hollowed out snow cave. –a famous poet at the next table. –a $20 tip on a modest dinner tab…left by a man who used to bus dishes. –a [...]
Blizzard of Blessings: Snowbound in Truckee
Sunday noon the Rigpa retreat at Squaw Creek ended with fireworks inside us and snow outside the windows. As we left Squaw Valley it felt as if we were driving in a convoy…mostly towards route 80 West…destination Sacramento. That was to be my route back to Lake County. It promised to be a rather a [...]
Settling in: Wisdom Teachings
I’m in Squaw Valley, California, along with 300 other students at the annual Rigpa (my Tibetan Buddhist group) fall retreat. We’re staying in luxury at the Squaw Creek Resort. Many of us are handling details of business and family life while we’re here. Cell phones and laptops abound. It’s a ten day retreat…mostly a teaching [...]
5.3 Critique Cycle: What does the group need to do?
Here is the second post in our Critique Cycle for Story Circle Network’s blog “Telling Her Stories. In the first post we discussed the definition and purpose of critique. In this post we discuss what the group’s responsibilities are to make a critique useful.
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