by Ethel Lee-Miller | May 19, 2014 | Reading
Such love does the sky now pour, that whenever I stand in a field, I have to wring the light out when I get home. ~ St. Francis of Assisi My childhood religion taught me that God loves us, but God is also a punishing God. Sunday school classes included coloring...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | May 18, 2014 | Reading
Have you ever walked into a place—even as ordinary as a post office, and there is a distinct atmosphere or mood? It’s true that many places have a history, and that certainly influences the mood. But some are almost as if the place still harbors the spirit of its...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Nov 15, 2013 | Reading
Denis Ledoux’s book Turning Memories into Memoir (1993) is subtitled, a Handbook for Writing Lifestories. Ironically I first used it not for my own writing, but for a workshop on the Genogram, which is a very elaborate family tree holding not only births,...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Nov 15, 2013 | Reading, Writing
Julia Cameron/morning pages. Many journalers morphing into writers will say those four words together. Writing for at least three pages each morning—letting my pen move across the page gave me the freedom not to have a writing agenda. I am a planner, then doer, of...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Nov 7, 2013 | Reading
After seeing posts of smiling, backpack-toting youngsters at the front door, or school bus door, or on their bike ready for that first day of school, I was inspired to review this piece as a thank you to the dedicated people to whom we entrust our children for another...
