Category Archives: Writing about writing

Black and White

Posted on November 12, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Back when Robbo and I were new parents, I used to host poetry parties.  I believed life was more than work, food, and sleep, and that our souls needed to be fed on poetry in the company of good friends. … Continue reading →

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What I Did for My Summer Vacation

Posted on August 30, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Well, my friends, it has been a long time. The constant tug I feel for spinning thoughts into poetry (of one kind or another) sometimes performs work of a different kind. This summer it generated letters with actual stamps, an … Continue reading →

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Traveling the Mississippi with Mark Twain

Posted on November 2, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

Last night, when I read to the family from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, we came upon a passage that made them erupt in laughter. I read it again a couple of times just to savor the choice … Continue reading →

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Anyone can write poetry

Posted on October 21, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

I want to write. When I write well and that magic thing happens, that long silky ribbon of of words that surprises even me, my soul sighs, profoundly content. It is like the winter yearning of my friend Aula to get … Continue reading →

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Black and White

Posted on November 10, 2013 by lettersfromheartscontent

Back when Robbo and I were new parents, I used to host poetry parties.  I believed life was more than work, food, and sleep, and that our souls needed to be fed on poetry in the company of good friends. … Continue reading →

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Much Ado about Lost Tools of Writing

Posted on April 16, 2013 by lettersfromheartscontent

The classical writing program, The Lost Tools of Writing, is teaching me to write. I have studied it on my own and I have been attending a class. I have watched my son wrestle with the classical writing skills in … Continue reading →

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The Joy Dare

Posted on November 8, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

It’s embarrassing. A drive through two years of blog posts uncovers a pattern of depression and anxiety in the late fall and winter.  If I have joy in the sunlight and new growth of spring and summer, it all shrivels … Continue reading →

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Lessons from Summer

Posted on August 23, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

This is what I learned this summer: That breaks really make a difference. Relax the rubber band or it will lose the stretch that makes it so good at what it does. That exercise feels sooo good when it is … Continue reading →

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What the best dressed are wearing

Posted on July 22, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.  ~Norbet Platt Well, I haven’t been writing in my journal but I have … Continue reading →

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Writing Letters

Posted on June 10, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

Attention, my two readers! Letters from Heart’s Content has been brought under new management. (That’s still me.)  I am making some changes around here and blogging is a part of it.  I have kept a journal since I was 14 … Continue reading →

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