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A “Slackness of the Soul”: Finding Hope in the Existential Time Warp of Acedia

 I was honored to contribute an essay by the above title to the Summer 2021 issue of Vita Poetica. Here’s a taste: The unnerving part about living through a time of change is, well, the change of time.  Life-altering events—whether personal or global—have a way of unhinging the present moment from what came before and…
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5 Prompts for Gratitude Journaling

My recently released Journal of Thanksgiving is a three-year, sentence-a-day journal to help folks (including myself) make gratitude a more intentional practice. Knowing that gratitude doesn’t always come naturally, I included a list of 33 prompts at the end of the book to help spur thoughts. Here are five of them! What is the funniest…
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Writing on Wednesdays title cover with Sarah Bereza and Nicole Roccas

A Tale of Two Book Launches (Ep 030)

https://media.blubrry.com/writingonwednesdays/content.blubrry.com/writingonwednesdays/WoW_030.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAt the time this episode was recorded, Nicole was days away from the release of her second book (in realtime, it’s already here!). She compares the strategies she used to launch her first book with what she hopes to do differently this time around. Plus, a tip and…
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Under the Laurel Tree: The Story of My Next Book

Four years ago, I found out that something I assumed would be a given–something I had grown up staking my heart on–may never come to be.