How To Share Your Content For Maximum Impact

How To Share Your Content For Maximum Impact

What’s the old adage? “If a blogger posts online and there’s no one there to read it, did it make an impact?” Nothing’s more discouraging than diligently crafting a post, editing it to perfection, clicking publish and then….crickets. Luckily, there are plenty of easy...
Weaving narrative threads

Weaving narrative threads

I love writing metaphors and look for them constantly: in my garden and while parenting, in the acidic bubbles of my sourdough starter, at the seashore. I was thrilled to recently discover a new one. I’d enrolled in a basket-wearing workshop at the Saint John Arts...
Spring Reading List

Spring Reading List

Reading often and widely is one of the best ways to write better. We fall into the cadence and rhythm of a story or article and absorb its authorial voice and tone. Without even trying, we pick up new vocabulary along the way. Through a kind of osmosis, we learn about...
The Tides Of Creativity

The Tides Of Creativity

Inspiration always returns In the early aughts, I went to Australia to visit my sister, Jackie, who was having an adventure living and working down under. During our vacation, I mastered driving stick on the left side of the road, swam in a tea-tree-oil-infused river,...