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Above all else, I am a writer. I write for fun, for relaxation, to pay the rent and put food on my table. I write to draw attention, make a difference, build connections. I write because words are like breathing. But it’s not just about the writing. It’s also about the books we read. The old adage “you are what you eat” applies just as strongly to what your mind ingests. Read well. Dig in. Live a thousand lives in your lifetime.

“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me… I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life… I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I’ll ever have.”         — Natalie Goldberg

Links:

• Better World Books
• IndieBound
• Jane Friedman 
• National Novel Writing Month
• Public Libraries

Reading:

• Writing Down the Bones
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Velveteen Rabbit
• The Little Prince
• James Wright: Collected Poems

Publications:

• Language Barrier, Drash Pit: A Monthly Midrash Mosh, February 2012
• Home on the Range, Adobe Walls: an anthology of New Mexico poetry (Volume 3), page 208
• Stand, Santa Fe oneheart, December 2011 — January 2012 (Vol 3 No 7), page 10 (PDF)
• Woodpile, Santa Fe oneheart, November — December 2011 (Vol 3 No 6), page 14 (PDF)
• The Locals, Santa Fe oneheart, Augst — September 2011 (Vol 3 No 3), page 10 (PDF)
• The Wind, Santa Fe oneheart, July — August 2011 (Vol 3 No 2), page 14 (PDF)
• Unseen, Gargoyle #50
• Fooling Mother Nature: Sometimes it’s Nice, Exploring Gardening
• The 3 O’Clock Slump, Exploring Energy
• Fluffy Sheep and Chamomile Tea: Folk Insomnia Cures, Exploring Sleep
• David & the Distorted Room, Exploring Size