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Pause for Peace: The Moment

What Every Author Craves

Pause for Peace: Listening for the Singing

Pause for Peace: As Time Goes By

How to Lead a Writing Retreat People Never Forget

Pause for Peace: drop in the bucket

A Wedding Blessing from the Red Sea

I Could Still Let Her Comfort Me Then

Pause for Peace: The Low Road

Pause for Peace: Morning News

The Summer I Dropped Acid with My Father

Pause for Peace: Blessing When the World is Ending

And So I Walk

Pause for Peace: Summons

I've Hated Shopping for Clothes My Entire Life

Pause for Peace: Resistance

Pause for Peace: Defense

Hard Choices

Pause of Peace: Rays of Kindness

The Stage I Never Planned to Take

Pause for Peace: Blessing

The Endings We Know and the Ones That Sneak Up on Us

Pause for Peace: Still I Rise

Embracing a Different Camino

Pause for Peace: Arguments for Peace

UPDATE: Fear Isn't a Stop Sign—It's a Doorway

Pause for Peace: Interwoven

When Your Body Finally Speaks

Pause for Peace: The Great Rift Valley, Kenya

A Photo a Day Keeps Despair at Bay

Pause for Peace: On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege

When Cancer Becomes the Easy Part

Pause for Peace: Land of 10,000 Lakes

The Body That Chose Life

Pause for Peace: How

A Different Kind of Anorexia

Pause for Peace: Gate A-4

The Body Budget

Pause for Peace: My Pledge of Allegiance

The Face in the Mirror

Pause for Peace: Is There an Angel in the House?

The Hippie Dad Who Never Stopped Writing

Pause for Peace: The Most Important Thing

The Portal in the Wound

Pause for Peace: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse

Things I Didn't Know I Loved

Pause for Peace: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life

Crossing the Border into Aging

Pause for Peace: Aftermath

The Sanctuary of Three Empty Weeks

Pause for Peace: Embracing Our Imperfections

The Crawl Space Under the Stairs

Pause for Peace: V'ahavta

What I'm Waiting For

Pause for Peace: Nothing More, Nothing Less

Dear Cancer,

Pause for Peace: I Can't Help But Love This World as I Know It Is Dying

What's On My Bedside Table?

Pause for Peace: Perhaps, this world is broken

Pause for Peace: Listen to the Birds, Not the News

When Your Body Speaks and You Have to Listen

Pause for Peace: We Were Made for These Times

Fear Isn't a Stop Sign—It's a Doorway

Pause for Peace: Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

Writers and Artists: A Call for Submissions

Pause for Peace: Do Not Be Afraid of the Dark

Writing Your Way Through Time

Pause for Peace: Going Home the Longest Way Around

My Muse Took Me On a Journey

Pause for Peace: It Is Enough

There Is Nothing Here You Cannot Meet

Pause for Peace: Detached From Outcome

How to Create Tension Between Characters in Your Memoir

How Great Writing Prompts Generated the Best Material in My Memoir

Pause for Peace: For When I Am Hard on Myself

The Kinds Of Silence I Have Known

Pause for Peace: Let Them Not Say

Pause for Peace: Womanifesto

Pause for Peace: November 6

Pause for Peace: For Love

Pause for Peace: Hope is a Form of Resistance

Pause for Peace: Don't Hesitate

Join Me On a Great Virtual Vacation + July Recommendations

Pause for Peace: At Albany Bulb with Elaine

Pause for Peace: For Citizenship

Lessons From My Students: Exploring the Power of a Repeating Line

Pause for Peace: For When People Ask

Send My Love to Anyone

Pause for Peace: First Reaction

When I Put Love at the Head of the Table

Pause for Peace: Continue

My Love Affair with the Human Voice

Pause for Peace: Poem in Which I Choose a Bundle of Kale Next to a Stranger

LAURA'S JUNE RECOMMENDATIONS

Pause for Peace: Hold Out Your Hand

Pause for Peace: For the Hardest Days

My Path to Finding My Substack DNA

Pause for Peace: Send Love--It Matters

What Hasn't Changed?

I Have Decided to Pay Attention

Passport to Freedom, Passport to Fear

An Antidote to Despair

There Are So Many Ways to Feel Triggered Right Now

What Does It Mean to Have Grit In an Ongoing Emergency?

I'm Standing on the Edge of...

I Might Have Cancer Again

Reclaiming Joy

What They Can't Take Away From Me

Build Community as If Your Life Depends on It—Because It Does

Gaining Perspective in a World We've Never Faced Before

What Makes a Great Writing Prompt?

Start Here! Welcome to the Writer's Journey

If You Want to Mine the Deepest Material in Your Writing, Here’s How...

What's Broken?

How to Keep Yourself Safe While Writing About the Hard Stuff