20 Writing Supplies Every Writer Should Have

My experience at another local coffeehouse and an update about my writing projects.

The At-Home Solo Writer’s Retreat

I explore more coffeeshops in my area of southcentral Pennsylvania and talk about my writing experience while there.

I’ve started my hunt for a good local coffeeshop to hang my writerly hat. In this post, I review a few coffeeshops near me.

Have you found a good place to write? I talk about my search in this post.

I am back from retreat and I talk about five benefits I received while away. I also talk a little bit about the venue I visited - The Inn at White Oak in Gettysburg, PA - as well as my upcoming writing class, Writing for Wellness.

I talk about procrastination and what I’m doing to get going again as I take on my third writing project.

Writing has saved me from myself once more. I explain how I got back on track after quitting writing a year ago.

After nearly a year away, I’m back with a long overdue update about what I’ve been up to. Hint, hint….it’s related to a book!

I continue the conversation on grief by listing what really helps when you’re grieving.

This post talks about some of the commonalities I’ve discovered in grief.

This post explains why I disagree with the American Psychiatric Association’s recent inclusion of Prolonged Grief Disorder in the latest version of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

This is the second of a two-part series on small ways to build resilience.

In this article, I talk about some baby steps you can take to build resilience. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series.

I talk about preparing to make a pivot and how it’s a part of resilience.

I talk about high-functioning depression and anxiety related to the recent death of TV personality Cheslie Kryst.

Dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder? My list of “small ways” may help you through this long, lonely season.

A list of 25 writing prompts each for grief/loss, anxiety, trauma and depression.

We are in the middle of a collective grief process and for that reason alone, we need each other more than ever.