Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

To continue this mini-series on the five senses, which is both inspired and adapted from the book "The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vi...

The best writing employs the use of the five senses to explore metaphor, to show instead of just tell. In the book, "The How to Think L...

More journal notes written during my stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, October 2006: I caught a t...

I recently visited the unusual and local Korean ginseng restaurant for lunch, located on Lawrence Avenue east of Elston on the northwest sid...

Journaling is an important element on any scrapbook page, but there's no right or wrong way to tell your story. There is only your way! ...

More journal notes written during my stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Yesterday I met a tall, th...

Some journal notes from my stay last month in the culinary suite at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow: Took the spice/herb inventory. ...

Some journal notes/letter from my culinary suite stay at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, last month: Spen...

I was among the fortunate 50 this year to have experienced and utterly enjoyed a writer's residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy ...

As Alanis Morissette sings, "What if God was one of us?" I recently attended an interfaith church service in which the leader ask...

For journaling, or any other creative pursuit, the busy mind needs to be cleared and calmed. This will help allow your own special associati...

My husband Carlos Cumpian and I just got back from a family trip to Texas which included the two of us making presentations and staying at t...

When you travel, you might traditionally send a handful of postcards to family and friends. How about sending a postcard to yourself? Use th...

I had the good fortune to appear as a speaker/lecturer at The Heartland Spa this past weekend. This desination spa is located about an hour...

There's another type of journal entry, which instead of looking back at the past or reveling in the present, contains predictions for th...

Who are you? The complete answer, if there is one, is complex. But you can get a better insight into the stuff you're made of by journal...

Many times, writers don't take the time to go back through their journals. According to Brandi Reissenweber in her article "Making ...

Do I sound like Emily Post if I ask poets to extend a special thank you to their reading hosts? And by that I mean to handwrite and mail a ...

Although this blog is mainly to showcase various journaling tips and suggestions, I devote a sizeable portion of my posts to the topic of wr...

The American Medical Association has released a study showing that keeping a journal can literally improve your physical health. And a growi...