Finding What’s Lovely In Another Pandemic Winter
If you’re having trouble finding what’s lovely about January this year, you’re not alone. I’ve been hearing from many of you, and it seems that all the courage and positivity we mustered as we headed into our first pandemic in 2020—is wearing as thin as an old pair of socks. And yet there are comforts to be had, even on snow-covered New England days. Sartre was right, the compact elegance of a poem can be deeply satisfying at this time of year. Dreams offer another source of consolation.
One Poem in Thirty
Each day when I sat down to write, I was aware that I was picking up, in some ways, where my mother had left off. Here’s a poem I wrote to honor all that is left unfinished in each life.
Q&A: On being a life-long dreamer and journalkeeper
I use my journals, especially my dream reports, to jump-start my own writing when I’m stuck, and I coach others to do the same.
5 Reasons Writers Should Keep a Dream Journal
Why keep a dream journal? Because as writers, when we are literate in the language of dreams, we gain access to fonts of understanding, imagination, and information that are valuable to our craft.
There’s a pandemic out there, and my journal is full
Some were counting rolls of toilet paper. I was counting down pages till my notebook was full. The day before Tax Day I ran out of paper in my red, Moleskin journal. I’d known this …
Fun & Dreams
It’s easy to lose any sense of light-hearted play when the mood around us grows heavy with fear and doubt. As dreamers, we can integrate play into our dreamwork. Here’s how ….
When it Comes To Keeping A Notebook, The Process Is All
Journals are also great repositories of raw material that I have mined for poems, stories, blog posts and more. Each of my five published books was birthed from the pages of my notebooks. Journal-keepers never have to face the pressure of the blank page, because we have reams of rough drafts ready to transform into finished pieces.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Writing by day, dreaming by night, waking refreshed This was my 9-5 during my weeklong summer vacation at Writing Camp: By day I wrote, shared work aloud with 11 other writers, and talked shop (mostly) …
Losing Sleep Over Dreams
Hold fast to your dreams? On the first night of a weekend Dream Poetry workshop I offered to a group of writers, I suggested the participants try to remember their dreams. I offered them my standard instructions for improving …
The Other Hand
Unlock the Meaning of Your Dreams It’s a strange paradox: Everybody dreams—several times each night in fact—and yet most people I talk to say they rarely remember theirs, and if they do they don’t pay …