Hugs in the Time of Covid
I guess that when hugs are abundant, our subconscious can peer into our deepest fears. And when they are not, we peer into our greatest...
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I write to shine a light on a dim or otherwise pitch black corner…to provide relief for myself and others. It’s the light that I am looking for. And the wonder it illuminates. May my words land in your heart. yours, Laura
Writing Prompts: Getting to the Truth
A good writing prompt prompts a lot more than words. It prompts truth. What we’re really looking for in our writing is truth. Even if...
A Gift for You: let’s write our way through this
I went out to the front porch today, feeling so low. Worrying about the things that we’re all worrying about right now. Trying not to...
Off Script. Musings from my fear and my love
I’m going to go on for a while. So make some tea. We need to talk. I need to talk. You need to talk. We...
So Now What: love from Laura, and the women of Willa’s Grove
We’re all asking this question right now, globally: So Now What? Life isn’t going as we planned, to say the least, due to COVID-19. So...
Spread Love (not viruses)
I have letters from my family that go back to the 1918 flu epidemic. Many of them. And they all talk about the Grippe in...
Why I Wrote WILLA’S GROVE: Finding your So Now What?
As seen on Women’s Writers, Women’s Books Book ideas are always coming to me. I’m usually working on a few at the same time and...
Taking Your Message on the Road
Dedicated to anyone who gets on stages with a message they care about. Pre-order your copy of Willa’s Grove from your local bookstore or here for...
The (C)Harm in Asking: A You’re Welcome attitude
Why is asking for help so hard? These days I have a list of things I need help with, and it always brings up so...
Sacred Solitude: a holiday date with your vulnerability
I write a lot about pain. I always have. Writing moves the pain through me and moves me through it. Some of that pain-processing stays...
Community or Netflix: (get off your couch)
So this is new: going out socially as a single entity. I’ve never really done it. Not in my daily life. I mean—yeah—to the grocery...
Finding Our So Now What
Pre-order Willa’s Grove now! (from your local bookstore, or here) Book ideas are always coming to me. I’m usually working on a few at the...
The Magic of the Woods: A lesson in wonder
I love to wander in the woods this time of year, when the forest yields its last fruits: the river birches and aspens going gold,...
The “Me Time” Medal: a week of wellness
What does it take, I wonder, to just…stop? To stop the madness of pushing buttons and swiping, clicking, scrolling from one screen to the next,...
How to Survive Empty Nest (AKA: Mommy Massage Money)
For those of you who are looking at the last weeks of August with dread, clinging to what last licks of summer magic you can...
Creativity: The great fear-buster
Now Booking my Fall Haven Writing Retreats in Montana… September 18-22 ( one spot left) September 25-29 (a few spots left) You do not have...
The Purge: Reclaiming my office. Reclaiming my solitude.
Do you have a place in your home where you let all the things you don’t want to deal with stack up? And then ignore...
How to Not Hate Writing an “About Me” Page…
There is something that has been on my list for a month, and every time it finds its way to the top, it gets somehow...
Inside Out and Backwards
For the last few months I have been putting on my clothes…wait for it: not just backwards, but inside out too. Backwards and inside out....
How to Find YOU in Empty Nest
You know when you run a life marathon, and it’s over? And you’re lying in your bed staring at the ceiling wondering how to stop...
Mother’s Day
Give your mother, your daughter, yourSELF the gift of a Haven Writing Retreat! Now Booking my fall retreats: Sept 18-22 Sept 25-29 The other...
The Art of Being Led
I went to Morocco alone for a month to find “that girl” again. I’d grieved my Empty Nest for the six months I gave myself. ...
Sent from my iPhone by Laura Munson
I haven’t lived in a city since cell phones or emails or the internet infiltrated our civilization. So as much as I long for my...
The Complete Puzzle
My kids and I spent hours and hours of our holiday this year, doing jigsaw puzzles. It was their idea. I couldn’t really get them...
Come Together…Right Now.
There have been two events in the last week that have brought deep calm and hope to me where I didn’t know hope was missing. ...
Heart Language
I woke early this morning, as I seem to do these days, with words. They were for myself, and I relished them. And then I...
“Allow Yourself To Be Spelled Differently” A Fable in Two Parts
(Borrowed from my journal on an island in Greece, 1986) Once upon a time, there was a wildly curious but wildly terrified nineteen year old girl....
10 Year Anniversary of My Season of Unlikely Happiness…
…Sometimes you need a dose of your own medicine… One of the blessings of writing my memoir, “This Is Not The Story You Think It...
What Does Self-Care Really Mean?
I’m glad that Self-Care is finally a “thing.” I’m glad that when we hear that phrase now, it’s not considered selfish so much as it...
The Art of Giving Up…to Go On.
Part One Ten years ago, I watched my friend go through Empty Nest. Her solution: drive a massive ice-breaking truck at the McMurdo Research Center...
Managing Expectations: Or how to drive a U-haul in San Francisco
Now booking the fall 2018 Haven Writing Retreats! From book writers to journal writers and everything in-between, Haven will meet you where you need to be...
Memorial Day: Remembering Two Lakes and Two Men
Now booking our fall 2018 Haven Writing Retreats! From book writers to journal writers and everything in-between, Haven will meet you where you need to be met!...
Ask Your Mother
Well it’s Mother’s Day. I am ever aware of how grateful I am for mine, and for the honor of being a mother too. Not...
Ladies, We Need to Talk Money!
There’s nothing like 4 am for all the good haunts, money being at the top of the list. This morning, I realized: We need to...
You Need a BREAK!
Come wander in your words at a Haven Writing Retreat in 2018! You don’t have to be a writer to come. Just a seeker who dearly...