Tarot for Two with Mary Allen and Tania Pryputniewicz

Visit Tarot for Two, a blog I started in 2015 with writer Mary Allen. Here's an excerpt from our blog's overview: We are two writers who have been throwing the cards for each other for over twenty years.   Because we now live in…
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Transformative Blogging: Inquiry via Mask

Writing exercises bookend the making of a three-dimensional mask that serves a dual purpose: to provide a layer of distance between the private self and the public blogger entering or re-entering the blogosphere (somewhat like a narrator functions…
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The “How To” Blog Post, or How Your Meander Creates an Aerial Snake to Remember

The other night, as my daughter and I grappled with her geography homework, we scanned through aerial photos of the sinuous path waterways make as they meander across the Earth. I couldn’t help but connect the winding pattern to writing. While…

The Oracle at Delphi, Your Blog Subtitle, and Three Examples

You’ve settled on a succinct but rousing blog title with decent “click pull”—at least to attract your tribe. Now that your visitor has arrived, your next opportunity to woo lies in your subtitle which should appear in the head-mast of…

Prayer for the Old

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Perhaps Maybe

Poet Liz Brennan and I collaborate when we can with prose poetry, thanks to Liz’s gentle invitation and perseverance. Liz’s blog reminds me of a mobius strip; she’s arrived at an ingenious structure, each week posting a tiny prose poem…