Miracle Cure
The writing cure is not a miracle cure, but it can go along way to help us heal.
A Communion of Sorts
A writer's illness and loss lead to the creation of a healing writing workshop, and a new anthology of writings.
What's Wrong with this Picture???
Nurses bear a huge burden of stress, which affects patients. Arts interventions for patients can relieve the burden of care for nurses, and arts interventions for nurses can create a healthier work environment.
After a Long Absence
Writing about our demons takes courage, but in the process we become more authentic, able to integrate our suffering into "the joyousness of the unified being."
The Rest of the Story
I am looking for the woman who saved my life last July 4, on Schooner Ridge beach in Duck, N.C.
On Being a Recluse
Chronic illness takes a person out of the social matrix. Writing is one way to interact with the world.
Sex, Death, Cooking (and Writing)
Death is to middle age as sex is to puberty--the next big mystery looming on the horizon.