Writing prompt: Boomer Centers (Pre-Senior)
If there were centers just for Baby Boomers, what would they look like? What would happen there?
If there were centers just for Baby Boomers, what would they look like? What would happen there?
I met William T. Dawson in Mountainair, New Mexico, in August 2007 for the 10th annual Sunflower Festival centered at the historic Shaffer Hotel. First, I’d attended the Sunflower Poetry Writing workshop, then participated as a featured reader in the Mountainair Poetry & Writers Picnic. This spoken word event is sheltered in the tree-shaded garden…
Womens Memoir is running a 2-part series Stephanie Farrow and I have written on the topic “Who Owns the Story?” We’re exploring issues of family story and memoir. There are several fun writing prompts at the end of each post.
STOMACH Back in California I give my Midwest cooking a rest. Pizza out of the freezer passes for supper. In Illinois I concoct elaborate stews and spetzle. To cosset my father’s appetite. To help his stomach march through Julia’s death. His savor for life no longer sat at the dining room table after the accident,…
I can’t get you out of my head…”Going out of my head….over you.” Wily words, I’ve been writing you in my head, what good does that do? If you’ve been trotting around with a head full of words and wondering how to transfer these onto paper, here are a few tips. Good work habits help…
When I was job hunting in the Bay Area in California in the late 1980s, I found that I had to offer something compelling to persuade people to meet me for an information interview. For example, on the phone with an image and communication consultant I was put on the spot. Why should she meet…
Here’s the Audio-Link for my Septemeber 2nd sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Alton, Illinois. Click here for a link to listen to “Memento-Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment” (just the sermon) or the full service. Neither my father nor I were amplified for our violin-playing, but you can hear it if you…