Everyone Wants a Piece of You – Including Us Writers
carriejonesbooks We live, if we ever let ourselves to really live, to hope, to fear, to elegies of beauty and pain, terror and hate. A woman on the street, a tourist,…
living your best life
Cheating On Yourself
I was once on a panel at a writing convention in Oklahoma and made fast enemies with the agent (now an editor) on the panel. Why? Because I disagreed. I’m…
Elusive or Scared? When a Bird Lands on Your Shoulder.
Our house is styled a bit like a farmhouse even though it’s in the middle of Bar Harbor, across the street from the YMCA’s back, dirt, and (until recently) unused…
Finding My Religion and My Story
Last week during our podcast about the strange things parents do, a lot of the people listening mentioned growing up very religious as Jehovah Witnesses or Pentecostals or Baptists. My…
Stopping Doomsday Thinking
A lot of great clients and students that I’ve worked with have what I like to call Doomsday Thinking. I’m pretty sure I didn’t coin that phrase. What is doomsday…