Today guest blogger Dorothy Skarles talks about New Year’s Resolutions. Sound familiar? New Year’s Resolution Have you ever made a quick resolution at the end of a New Years Eve dinner while everyone else drank a tiny-bit more champagne and blew party favors? Then as the waitress came to serve dessert, you quickly waved her away, […]
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Gratitude Just Makes Sense
What better way to start the new year than with a post about GRATITUDE? Gratitude isn’t just about being thankful. Gratitude changes us neurologically, makes our brains stronger, just makes sense. Gratitude burns away the shadow of life’s circumstances, like the sun burns away fog–that empty mode we can lock ourselves into, where we’re unable to […]
Freedom is Choice
I hate losing stuff. I hate losing valuable time. I hate losing friends. I hate losing money. But most of all, I hate losing freedom. I would give up stuff, time, and money for freedom. I’d give up friends who threaten my freedom. Losing my freedom is unacceptable. Pure and simple. But then again, we give […]
Bereavement / Are You a Couch Potato?
Today, guest blogger Dorothy Skarles shares a note she received from her brother-in-law that relates to all memoir writers. To this, she adds another installment in Dash Off a Memory, Create a Memoir, by revisiting a subject she knows well–Bereavement. Welcome Dorothy. Are You A Couch Potato? This morning, my brother-in-law sent me this little note, and since I feel the sentiment goes […]
Generating Ideas for Your Memoir / Create a Memoir
Today guest blogger and memoir writing teacher, Dorothy Skarles, is doing double-duty. First she provides a list of ideas to help jump-start your memoir. Then she incorporates one of these ideas with her own life experience to offer an example of how it’s done. Welcome Dorothy. Generating Ideas for Your Memoir To get to the […]
Write About Your Feelings / Bereavement
Guest blogger Dorothy Skarles is back to highlight a subject close to her heart.Bereavement. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, bereavement is a noun; a state or fact of being. But in the post that follows, Dorothy turns it into a verb. By that I mean, Dorothy shares her emotional response to loss in a […]
