Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

Most of the world, in contrast to the U.S., consumes a very simple diet that usually includes some form of carbohydrate such as rice or nood...

While this is a journal writing blog, it is poetry, poetry writing and reading poetry aloud that are my original, closest and dearest discip...

One purpose your journal might serve is as depository for collections of different metaphorical images that can eventually be used in your p...

Some of the greats who couldn't write without artificial stimulation, who chummed up to the bottle but ended up at the bottom of the bar...

"Without guidance, people fall, but with many counselors, there is deliverance." Proverbs 11:14. My husband told me that he was su...

There are times when your watch stops and your world stops, too, because the need to buy a new battery could throw off your whole budget. Th...

Living the life of a poor poet allows neither the time, money nor ambition to stroke the draperies of the high fashion catwalks. While poem ...

We all have those special times of day or favorite locales that help inspire our writings. I am a highly visual person and get distracted by...

Choosing the life of a poet and writer didn't generate tons of money, particularly in my early, studio apartment, years. What I didn...

Technorati Profile According to Julie Deardorff at the Chicago Tribune (Sunday, January 8, 2006), keeping a journal if number five among her...

One of my coworkers, Carlee, read my January 7 blog on "Birthday Letters to Your Children." Carlee wrote, "I really can relat...

On today's new "Real Simple" television show on PBS, a woman spoke about the letters she received from her father at each one ...

Today picks up where yesterday left off with more fill-in-the-blanks journal entries for your personal year in review. See my January 1st po...

Mary Schmich at The Chicago Tribune ran a recent column (Wed. Dec. 28, 2005) about looking forward to the new year ahead by looking back and...

When we think of Thanksgivings of the past, our memories can often blur into visual "bytes" of rising before sun-up, basting turke...

Hilary Liftin from Los Angeles described an interesting travel journaling tradition between her and her husband in the April 2005 issue of R...

Rituals are part of being human. And observing holidays and special occasions are rituals important to many of us. To follow your own person...

The trick-or-treaters have come and gone, and outside of seeing the little kids dress up and present their smiling faces and pumpkin buckets...

I have to admit it. My life is surrounded by books and writing and plays and ever more words. Fortunately, I am married to someone who has t...

Creating Keepsakes Magazine sent me an e-mail filled with free journaling tips. The tips cover journaling and scrapbooking ideas, and as far...