by Carolyn | May 24, 2014 | Ms. Persephone, Searching for Persephone
I’m obsessed with words. Writing is a practice of revealing what’s at the core. When I was doing the final edit to send my novel manuscript (“Searching for Persephone”) to the literary agent, the edit that I call the Crisp and Clean Edit (following...
by Carolyn | May 22, 2014 | The SoulFire
The world needs your voice. I believe each one of us has a story stirring within, one that only you can tell. You’ve probably thought about it all of your life. But sometimes we don’t know what we have, we don’t value the significance of our stories....
by Carolyn | May 22, 2014 | Love Heals, The Fallen and The Falling
Time doesn’t heal. Love heals. When you lose someone, the people around you often don’t know what to say. “Time heals,” they’ll say, well-intentioned. But grief is a stone in your heart. Many people live...
by Carolyn | May 13, 2014 | Living in Grace, The Fallen and The Falling
This is my foreword for “Yoga and Grief” by Gloria Drayer and Kathleen Doherty, forthcoming in summer 2014 from Balboa Press. Pre-order it at yogaandgrief.com. Grief comes in waves. When you have lost someone you love, the sadness is a powerful undertow in...
by Carolyn | Mar 23, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
If someone told you now that you have more leisure time than ever, would you believe them? Or would you, as working mother Brigid Schulte did, want to say, “You are out of your flipping mind!” A time-use researcher told her in 2010 that Americans have 30...
by Carolyn | Mar 14, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
This blog post originally appeared March 16, 2014, in the Sunday Journal and at abqjournalsage.com. In the eternal conversation about work-life balance, the Harvard Business Reviewthis month introduces a new round with its cover story, “Manage Your Work, Manage...
by Carolyn | Mar 9, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
This story originally appeared in the March 9 print edition of the Albuquerque Journal and the Sage magazine website at abqjournalsage.com. March is Women’s History Month, and as March 8 was International Women’s Day, plenty of stories about fascinating...
by Carolyn | Dec 19, 2013 | Vox & Luz
Winter Solstice is point on the calendar when the sun stands still. That is the literal meaning of the word solstice. In my busy life, I savor those words, “the sun stands still,” because time always seems like it’s rushing out ahead of me. Deadlines...
by Carolyn | Jun 20, 2013 | Free Conference Calls for Writers, Living in Grace, The SoulFire, THE WRITING SPACE, WHAT'S NEW
“Each drop encases its own separate note, the way each drop engulfs its own blue pearl of light.” –Stuart Dybek, “Nighthawks” The image of raindrops Dybek places in our minds is indelible. That is the way that Tara L. Masih begins to describe the effects of flash...
by Carolyn | Jun 6, 2013 | Free Conference Calls for Writers, Mindful Writing, The SoulFire, THE WRITING SPACE, WHAT'S NEW
Every first Thursday, Terry Price and Carolyn Flynn kick off a whole new month of blissful writing with a talk about Inspiration. We hope you’ll use the ideas we discussed today on The Writing Life: The Free Weekly Conference Call for Writers in your writing...
