Song of Self
Song of Self
I live for politics, creative aspirations, and
Words that flow, At night my mind is chasing…
Author
Romancing Ourselves
Romancing Ourselves
Physical closeness breeds frustration. There are always arguments between two unique…
In These Times December 2021
In These Times December 2021
"Advice from a sunflower: Be bright, sunny, and positive. Spread seeds of…
Introduction to Fairies
Introduction to Fairies
Since fairies go where humans go, even today they have been spotted from top to bottom,…
Happy Children Poem
Happy Children Poem
Are all-stars, curious jugs of sunshine,
their eyes metaphors of emptiness
and fullness…
Willawikki – The Land of Fairies
Willawikki
Chapter 1 Once upon a time, long ago, Tinker Bell talked Peter into visiting Willawikki, the Land…
The Color of Money
The Color of Money
Are you Dead-Broke, or Dying to Spend?
The Money Tree
Money, Money, Money. We all want it.…
Worldly Fears
Worldly Fears
Haters are just like Crickets; they make a lot of noise, you hear it, but you can't see them, then…
How Do We Say Goodbye?
How Do We Say Goodbye?
The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the…
Partnering with the Unknown
Partnering with the Unknown
I’m always struck at how magical and unexpected the process of partnering with the…
Does Color Matter?
Does Color Matter?
I summon my muses around 3:00 a.m. - when they are but shadows, neither white nor black;…
In These Times – 2021
In These Times - 2021
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present…
7 Senior Moments: How to Cope with the Aging Process
How to Cope with the Aging Process
Ralph Waldo Emerson reminds us, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly…
Prominent Marketing Tips for Writers
Marketing Tips for Writers
What makes a bad marketer? Being anti-social! To be successful, we must have…
911 In These Times – 2020
911 In These Times, 2020
Writers like me are continually searching for the flow of ideas that will get them…
Making Sense of Absurdity
Making Sense of Absurdity
Can you laugh today without feeling guilty? Feelings of guilt come and go, but it is…
A Budding Rose
A Budding Rose
If only I could back time,
When I was young, sexy, and selfish,
Living like Spring, rising at…
DNA: Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy
DNA: Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy: “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be; it’s the way it is. The way you…
In These Times – 2020
In These Times - 2020
Ralph Waldo Emerson warns us, “He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every…
Wasted Love and Poor Partnering Choices
Poor Partnering Choices
To the question "Are you happy?"...up to 99% of all would say…No. Here’s the thing –…
Circle of Life
Circle of Life
Ribbons, Bows, and Pink Lace
I am six, no ribbons, bows, or pink lace, only long curly locks…
The Widow’s Smile
The Widow's Smile
T’s amazing what a widow’s smile can hide. I know this to be true because I am a new widow.…
In These Times – 2019
In These Times - 2019
Most of us start our day sincerely interested in life, politics, the universe, and all its…
The Funny Thing about Writing
The Funny Thing about Writing
Frederick Franck, in Art as a Way, tells us “The point of practicing an art is…
In These Times – 2018
In These Times - 2018
God showed an angel his new specs for a woman:
He said, “Look, here – Angel,”
A woman…
Do You Feel Something is Missing?
Something is Missing
When we’re lonely and stuck in a box of “Only Ifs, Whys, and Why-Nots,” there is always a…
Pleasing Others Syndrome
Pleasing Others Syndrome
Have you ever suffered from the Cinderella Syndrome or Pleasing Others Syndrome? How…
Chasing Marie
Chasing Marie
While reading Chasing Marie, I feel like a detective analyzing clues and they come fast although the…
In These Times
In These Times
In These Times, most of us grew up believing that the more you sacrifice, the bigger the reward.…
Creativity Unseen
Creativity Unseen
I must admit the arrival of faith in love and its guidance in my life has been a gradual…
Love, Rhyme and Reason – Beginnings
The hardest thing for me as a grandmother writing about love, was to cut away all that is incidental and keep only…
Working at Love and Friendship
Working at Love and Friendship
Most of us want things to have calm and order in our lives, which is not always…
Learning to Love
Learning to Love
I finally grew into the person I was always meant to be in my forties. I found self-love by…
Birth a New You
Birth a New You
Laid Off? Take Time & Birth A New You When I was laid off years ago as a legal secretary…
Life is a Puzzle
Life is a Puzzle
The majesty of past years is not lost to us who know endings are about growth, change, and…
Marketing Tips for New Authors
Marketing Tips for New Authors
To make a difference, money must be spent. We are living in wicked hard times…
Is Love a Mental Disease?
Is Love a Mental Disease?
When falling in love, we feel something going pitter-patter and that is your heart…
You and Me, God
A riveting saga of a young girl’s walk with God during her early, formative, and adult years
The Whodoit of Politics
The Whodoit of Politics
Who of us loves a good mystery? A whodunit that keeps us turning pages or glued to our…
Congratulations, You’ve Published your Book!
Congratulations, You’ve Published your Book!
Congratulations, you’ve published your book! You will soon realize…
Generations of Women
A kick here and there for my mom,
my daughters and me,
rivalry inscribed from birth to grave,
our mouths…
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump: The Dark Side of Winning
The Dark Side of Winning
All of us, including Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, started off with the one real…
Who Strokes Your Ego?
Who Strokes Your Ego?
Do you want to be important for your own gratification or to please others? Do you want or…
Our Children, Our Future
I like to begin poetry by exploring phrases, I am...I am a poet...but then I think "What is a poet?"…
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 4
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 4
When contemplating art-making, some of us need a peaceful, quiet sanctuary…
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 3
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 3
Creative expression has always been at war with boredom and unhappiness…
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 2
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 2
Writing poetry, journals, and making art are wonderful and creative ways to…
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 1
The Philosophy of Creative Writing 1
There is nothing like using eBooks and the internet to acquire new ideas…
The Typist
Yesterdays ago when spouting words of wisdom, I managed to raise the vibrations all around me
A Poet’s Circle of Life
A Poet's Circle of Life
I am not always aware, at least on a conscious level, how much others drive my art.…
Living with Pain
Living with Pain: Life just isn't always what you want it to be. Acute or chronic pain can overwhelm your life day…
Do You Converse With Angels?
Angels are our behind-the-scenes team. They help us be who we were meant to be
Healing the Invisible 3
Freud originally defined libido as a lust for life not lust for sex
Secrets to Anti-Aging
Lucky for us baby-boomers, we’re all inspired beings and not quite like any other generation
We Need Humor to Bumper the Pain in Our Hearts
Each of us has a story of love and survival that is uniquely ours
The Alcoholic and his Enabler
Rotted gutting, pickled lips and blood shot eyes, violent limbs in the middle of sleep
The Best of Love
Love is a double-edged sword that can cause elation and fear at the same time.
Chasing the Wrong Dreams
Chasing the Wrong Dreams
It took more than twenty years of failing, counseling, drug therapy, and electrical…
The Glass Dancer
Dancing with vulnerable glass quarried limbs, Blind mocking eyes cold as stone
Are You Open To Your Deepest Sensibilities?
I miss my mom and pops, but I’ve since had to learn to live without them
For my Mom and Daughters
A kick here and there for my Mom,
my daughters and me.
Rivalry inscribed from birth
to grave Sweet…
What Do You Use For Creative Expression?
What Do You Use For Creative Expression?
There is nothing like using eBooks and the Internet to acquire new…
For My Mom and My Daughters
For My Mom and My Daughters A kick here and there for my Mom,
My daughters and me.
Rivalry inscribed…
How to Create Spontaneous Images
How to Create Spontaneous Images
I learned to create many spontaneous images in Window's 'Paint,' starting out…
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Madonna and Baby Jesus...the supreme subject... Some call her Mary; others call her
The River is Everywhere
I was born under a bridge, just feet from the Mississippi, the ghosts of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
The Art Of Grieving
The Art Of Grieving
When my mom died in my arms, just a couple of weeks earlier, I was lost in grief and began…
A Thousand Eyes
When twilight chases day,
Heavens twinkled with the delight
Of a thousand artists’ eyes
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: The New York Times tells us that, “After hearing testimony for nearly three…
To President Obama and the Republicans
Obama and the Republicans
Warriors who, when they look at you, hope you have been seen. When they listen, you…
Psychotherapy: The Need to Knead
Psychotherapy: The Need to Knead
Kneading clay is pure therapy; not only for our souls but also for our tired…
Looking For Self-Love In All The Wrong Places
Looking For Self-Love In All The Wrong Places
When I was a young single mother, I remember wearing too much…
A Timely Poem
There’s never enough time,
Wanting you or not,
I’ve solaced myself,
Waiting for buses on Broadway,…
Racial Disparities: Is There Hope for America?
I am a senior citizen and it is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so deeply.
Who Can You Really Control?
Who Can You Really Control?
“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just…
Turning Passion into Purpose
Contrary to popular opinion, there is no such thing as multitasking
Finding Love in Human Nature
Evolution favors us, but compared to man, We’re built inside out and upside down with an ugly face
Freeing our Minds for Creative Thoughts
Freeing our Minds for Creative Thoughts
What is Creative Expression to YOU? Exploring creativity and creative…
Racial Disparities: Is There Hope for Ferguson?
Hope for Ferguson: There are two kinds of people in this world, people who know your name and people who do…
Surviving Depression Together
Surviving Depression Together
A saying for those of us who suffer from chronic Depression: Sticks and stones may…
Speaking Up With Your Hands – Seven Tips for Introverts
Speaking Up With Your Hands
“What the hands say is often louder than words!”
~ Joe Navarro, M.A. Go…
Loving the Fates
Loving the Fates
I think personally that all beings are most probably designed in God’s image, with a sense of…
Turning into Mom
Turning into Mom
I hear my mom’s voice many mornings when I roll out of bed, her eyes looking back at me in a…
Happy Children
Happy children are all-stars, curious jugs of sunshine, their faces radiant, their eyes metaphors of emptiness
Cloned Babies
Earth, is damn mad now,
Her rain forests so beautiful and strategically placed are gone
Because men needed…
How to Beat Addictions
How to Beat Addictions: We, with addictions, think we are unlucky in love and life, easily locked into alcohol,…
The Wisdom of Love
We should be given credit for the courage it takes to give more love than you receive.
Making Marriage Work
Pimping out Love in Poetry Poem…Some love affairs go on too long in our heads, the truth is we poets can easily…
Contemporary Coupling Hints
Contemporary Coupling Hints
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We were on our honeymoon. As I began to undress in the honeymoon…
A Cowboy’s Moon Light Ride
A Virgin Moon shining
particles of our forefathers,
ageless and weightless,
a movie camera. Intake,…
Springtime Choices
My first choice is to open the windows and tear the plastic away, and let the sun shine thaw out my aching bones
The Language of Love
The Language of Love
Our happiness depends on picking partners that show they can love us the way we need to be…
Mothers & Daughters
A kick here and there for my Mom, my daughters and me,
Rivalry inscribed from birth to grave
Angry Earth
Our planet is damn mad now,
Her rainforests so beautiful and strategically placed are gone
Psychology of Marriage, Love & Sex
I believe we all need to love each other like we once did as children, burning for friendship and singed by need…
There Are Many Ways of Being Artful
Our only goal is to be truthful, and if we can fake that on paper, we've got it made.
If it Looks and Sounds Like a Poem
I want to thank Picasso, Chagall, and all the other artists I partner with in my work. Most of us get a kind of…
Review: Sculpting the Heart
Sculpting the Heart takes you on a personal journey through depression and the healing powers of creative…
Give Me Your Eyes
Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me Your…
10 Magic Bullets of Forgiveness
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is…
Introduction to a Writer
Dedicated to anyone who ever felt lonely in a crowded room and most happiest at the computer
See Something Scary? Look for Helpers!
Look for Helpers
We, the People, are vulnerable containers packed with passionate dual personalities. We’re part…
Christmas Story for Writers having a Bad Day
Because I am convinced there are so many people in pain right now, I've decided to follow my own instincts and…
How to Write & Read Poetry
Write & Read Poetry: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood, the unknown healing all wounds of…
Old Age Honors Us
We were given the embrace of Mother Nature to cushion our lives with grace and beauty...while we age.
Old age has…
The Complacent March of Men
Man has been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But for the first time in human history, that is…
Brain Sex
Until recently, exactly what happens in the brain during sex was something of a mystery to scientists. Many of us…
Who Do I Vote For?
Who will be our new President? I want to vote for the killing to stop.
I think a lot about our men arguing over…
President Obama
Guys to watch, envy, and immulate... When they look at you, you know you've been seen, When they listen, you know…
Venus & All Want-to-Be Marilyn Monroes
Marilyn Monroes - Excerpt from Sculpting the Heart's Poetry while Conversing with the Masters
Some call us man's…
Psychology of Love, Marriage and Sex – Excerpts 4 and 5
4. Time Keeper of Love According to psychologist, Elaine Hatfield, there are two basic types of love, compassionate…
Excerpt (3): Psychology of Love, Marriage & Sex
Bertrand Russel says, “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life already are three parts dead.” I’m not…
Our Designer Future
I wrote this poem thinking about how our world would be if science begins designing kids in test tubes.
Then…
Review: Surviving Depression with Art Therapy
Joyce White holds that "everyone can doodle and scribble their way to wellness and joy. By climbing up, up, up, to…
Excerpt(2): Psychology of Love, Marriage & Sex
If you are reading this, you are probably wondering if your love and sex life can be made even better. Good sex…
Review: Sculpting the Heart’s Poetry
Sculpting the Heart's Poetry while Conversing with the Masters - Growing Love When I was a child, it was my mom…
The Trouble with Sex
The Trouble with Sex
We all chase that ‘feeling good’ flowering emotion in motion. We put our hope, dreams, and…
Conversing with the Masters
When Picasso found himself old, twisted and torn, he paused for a rest at Madoura Pottery in 1953, where Picasso …
The Dancing Hands of the Wallflower
This article is dedicated to anyone who ever felt lonely in a crowded room.
The Hermit Poet
It is a dilemma how…
Surviving Depression
I personally believe being happily engaged in writing and art making is better than not; and secondly, living…
Feminist Godly Mythology
Feminist Godly Mythology: My personal thanks to Sage Sweetwater who befriended and encouraged me with her reviews,…
Someday at Christmas
Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our…
Excerpt: Reading Picasso
I want to thank Picasso and all the other artists that inspire me with their work. Most of us get a kind of…
Review: Sculpting the Heart with Art Therapy
"Joyce White has aligned herself with spiritual principles that govern the workings of "Sculpting the Heart with…
The Art of Kissing our Loved ones…
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed…
Sculpting the Heart’s Poetry 2
Sculpting the Heart's Poetry (2): The fourth book in Joyce White's Sculpting the Heart series, Sculpting the…
Becoming a Poem
As an artist I will admit there were unfortunate moments in my intensity, when crippling insecurities left me…
Stir, Laugh, Repeat
Like many non-cooks, I have a distinct yearning for the taste of yester-year. Martha has compiled a cookery book of…
Conversing with the Master’s – Ekphrasis Poetry
Chapter 3: Excerpts from Sculpting the Heart's Poetry, Conversing with the Masters Ekphrasis poetry like mine makes…
Psalms of Praise & Power
Psalms of Praise & Power: Translated from the Greek Old Testament In John Howard Reid's, Bible Wisdom:…
Review: Shape of My Heart
He deals the cards as a meditation.
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He…
Saint Raphael – Archangel
Saint Raphael - Archangel Saint Raphael comes to us to heal what is
Not right with his wisdom and grace…
Review: Grieving a Soulmate
The love story behind "Till Death do us Part" by Robert Orfali - The blurb on the back of the book begins:…
Review: Bible Wisdom for Modern Times
Editors Review by John Howard Reid's, Bible Wisdom for Modern Times: Selections from the Orthodox Old Testament…
Review: Repulsion Thrust
This book by Magdalene Ball is her first full length poetry collection of many varied subjects including, dogs,…
How Much is Too Much Texting?
Text messaging has become an unstoppable phenomenon but how much is too much texting? As a media sociologist and…
God Bless the Creative
God Bless the Creative
If you’re wondering how to be creative there is no secret. As sometimes happens in human…
Review: Sleep Before Evening
Magdalene Ball says in this drug fiction slice-of-life drama, you can find good and bad in everything that happened…
The Joy of Making the Invisible Visible
Making the Invisible Visible
There are many ways of being artful and making the invisible 'visible.' I like to sit…
Review: Create Your Own Destiny
What I believe in - - is the power of positive thinking. I also believe good health is in a renewal of spirit. One…
Maestro
As a student of life, I find the title Maestro very interesting. The word Maestro is a title of extreme respect…
Does a Woman’s Neurochemistry Keep Her Insolvent?
It’s always been an uphill battle for women to earn money. Why do you suppose that is? We’re as talented as men.…
Review: Your Blog, Your Business
Your Blog, Your Business: Carolyn Howard-Johnson's nearly three decades of experience as founder and manager of her…
Healing the World with Poetry
Healing the World with Poetry
Poetry makes an excellent conversation beginning with a lump in the throat then…
Review: Sculpting the Heart’s Poetry (1)
Joyce White’s, Sculpting the Heart's Poetry While Conversing with the Masters, offers first some thoughts regarding…
Review: Symphony of your Karma
Symphony of your Karma. Healing Destiny of Soul - Paperback (Aug. 12, 2008) by Rachel Madorsky
Rachel's book is…
Review: Imagining the Future
Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have woven their Imagining the Future: Ruminations on Fathers and Other…
Surviving Depression with Art Therapy
This review is from: Sculpting the Heart: Surviving Depression with Art Therapy (Paperback). A Marvelous Look at…
Put Passion Back Into Your Life
Being in the flow of art is sort of like losing yourself in the moment. Before getting down to work, I always tried…
Womanly Secrets to Anti-Aging
Lucky for us baby-boomers, we’re all inspired beings and not quite like any other generation of women. As we got…
Expressing Ourselves Can Be Exciting & Medicinal
Just as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung knew so long ago, “…language was not always adequate to express what we’re…
Psychology of Love, Marriage & Sex
If you don’t know trust in love’s genius, you won’t ever realize love’s gifts. Falling in love means turning off…