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Whether you write in a journal or write with the intention of publishing your work, it’s important to know your motivation for writing. I ask this of every client I coach. Why write?

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Most of us are familiar with the vibe that a stranger gives off. That’s the field. It goes by other names such as electromagnetic energy, chi, prana, or biofield, the National Institute of Health’s preferred term.

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On October 25, 1914, banker John Allyn Smith and schoolteacher Martha Little welcomed their first of two sons, John Allyn Smith Jr.—now known to the world as John Berryman. Berryman was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, a town of roughly 17,000 people, about the same size then as it is today, best known for housing prison inmates and a munitions plant...

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I moved off campus my junior year at Long Island University into a second-floor room of a home in the cheerful village of Sea Cliff, one square mile of artists, Victorian architecture, and a small cliff park overlooking Hempstead Bay. My space, with an adjacent half room, boasted two walls of picture windows with ample light and openness to support studying, reflecting, and launching myself into independence.

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This excerpt of my travel memoir Ginseng Tango originally appeared in This Land on August 25, 2015.  You can learn more about Ginseng Tango on its book page.   I check my email before going to bed and find a message from my ex-husband with “Sad News” in the subject line. I know immediately what it’s about: Java, my […]

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RVA Litcrawl was birthed in a period of distraction. I was busy writing my book on somatics due in a few months and paused from tapping at the keyboard. Out of habit, I checked out Facebook. I learned that friends in Denver were taking part in a litcrawl. What fun!

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An act of love like so many books, Contact Improvisation: an Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance came out in print in 2006 after several years of writing. It took that long because I interviewed so many dancers around the country and abroad. I wrote the book because I loved the dance. Still do. The dance […]

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