Kitchen Kvetch

My dearly beloved has been out of town for a few days (promoting her book ‘The Confident Creative’ which you can see on www.theconfidentcreative.com) and that left me with the cooking.
I’m a moderately competent cook if I put my mind to it, in a basic kind of way. There are occasional forays into exciting [...]

Memoir Groups

So here I am, making suggestions on how you can run your own Memoir groups, only to discover that most of my former students have already done just that.
As I understand it, several of you have taken the initiative and meet regularly to read and comment and share, which is music to my ears. [...]

Writing True

Those of you who visit this blog regularly, and who are kind enough to comment as well, may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much recently. There is a reason, and that is that I’ve been writing, drafting a new book about how we can get into the flow of the universe, how we [...]

Form Your Own Memoir Group

Since the book came out several people have asked me about forming a memoir group and what it requires. The first thing is to have people who live close to you so you can actually form a group. You can use this site to find them. From that point on it’s easy.
If you’re [...]

Memoir - more food for thought

Personal Writing and Memoir

Another Youtube on how we can use memoir….

All Saviors Disappoint

This week’s cover for the ‘New Yorker’ shows four cartoon frames. A small figure walks towards us. As it gets closer we see that it’s Obama, walking on water. The final frame shows a surprised Obama as one leg disappears beneath the surface.
Very witty. Some people really felt that, like Jesus, [...]

Memoir as Soul Work

I’m going to be putting a series of videos up in the coming days, giving hints as to how you can turn your memoir (or in fact any kind of personal writing) into something that will grow you as a conscious being. You may not like the words ‘Soul Work’ because they seem religious. [...]

Memoir - It’s still about Soul Work

I’ve just uploaded another video to Youtube
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With luck the link should work, otherwise try this address:

Memoir writing is not just about proving oneself more right than anyone else (Sarah Palin might be an example of that way of thinking). It’s about digging deeper so that we can grow in understanding, compassion, and [...]

Memoir -and the Buddha

Some of you may know the famous Buddhist saying; “I am in the Buddha and the Buddha is in me”. In other words, without me, the things taught by Buddhism, such as peace and love, cannot come fully into existence. Buddha energy needs me to help express it, and it needs you, too. And [...]