Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

A brush with destiny and the Infinity Foundation got me a small spotlight this spring on YouTube . The gal has entered the 21st century, but...

Ira Progoff , the father of modern journaling, cited six main types of dialogues in his groundbreaking volume, " Intensive Journal Work...

In today's world, with nearly unlimited access to information and our culture's tendency to multitask, we might consider ourselves a...

I have a day job, but I don't necessarily want to dialogue with it. I may argue with it a good portion of the eight hours I punch in, bu...

In my journal writing workshops, I guide participants in writing "Letters That Can't Be Delivered." A letter might be written ...

Move over Brangelina. The bigger news about who is in bed with whom concerns Monsanto and the U.S. government. You can get the gritty detail...

The web is a place for journal writers to dive in and make creative connections. You might like to check out Wordswimmer , a blog by Bruce B...

Besides Journal Writing Tips with a Twist, discover other excellent websites and blogs floating out there in the cyperspace blogosphere. Ch...

I had my work cut out for me at the Poetry Farm. And I loved it! However, between rising early, hoeing grape vines, helping with dinner and ...

On YouTube, some journal writers who create visual art and travel journals present them in video form without the chatter, simply showing pa...

Dinner meals were a collective, creative effort at the Poetry Farm, a writer's colony and organic fruit and vegetable farm in Orfordvill...

Fall is probably my favorite time to write and has turned out to be my annual favorite time to get away from Chicago to do so. I was fortuna...

Last weekend marked the first summer camp-out for friends and family. Our destination? Central Wisconsin for the annual Midwest Renewable En...

The sun shines on the just and the unjust, the foodie and those who masticate the unpalatable. Thus, solar energy is there for the taking fo...

I had never heard of purple carrots until I visited a site based in the UK called the Carrot Museum . These carrots are purple on the outsid...

Suppose you run into an old friend. I mean someone whom you haven't seen for five, 10, 15 or more years. Where do you begin? Beyond fill...

Both my husband, Carlos, and I have had strong exposure to dance and are big fans of a variety of dance -- whether classical, popular, triba...

It's hard to imagine that such a peaceful, reflective New Year's Day started with gunfire in the alley at midnight. But that's l...

Your brain receives signals from 200,000 temperature sensors and more than 500,000 touch detectors. According to artist Leonardo da Vinci, m...

During my two-week sojourn earlier this year in the Culinary Suite of The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, ...