Tell the Story
Today is the 21st and last day of Bindu Wiles‘ original 21.5.800 (5 days of yoga each week and 800 words each day) challenge. On Day 14, I wrote about the middle, and that post really needs a Part 2 here at the end of the first 21 days, and before the ten-day extension begins […]
read moreYesterday I cried in the back corner booth of a bagel restaurant while having lunch with a friend. Long ago I learned to hold back my tears because of someone’s belief that to cry for myself was self-indulgent, not to mention red-eyed and -nosed unattractive. It meant that I was making too much of things, […]
read moreFor about three years now I’ve been paying lawyers to help me fight to end a relationship that was all about fighting. I’m not much of a fighter. My default responses to real or perceived aggression include feeling trapped (essentially sitting in a corner in tears) or ending an exchange or even a relationship with […]
read moreToday is the sixth day of 21.5.800, the brilliant yoga and writing challenge from www.binduwiles.com. (I’m having trouble with my links–please click on the purple badge to the left for now.) Bindu challenges participants to 21 days in which we do yoga five times per week and write 800 words every day. My yoga practice […]
read moreIf I were to tell you that Hialeah, Florida is the fifth-largest city in Florida, smaller only than Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, and St. Petersburg, and bigger than Orlando or Ft. Lauderdale, you might imagine a big city with tall office buildings and “good” shopping and dining. And I would have misled you. Hialeah has the […]
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For years I kept secrets in silence. Then, once upon a time, I spoke and wrote them to a handful of people and began to blog anonymously. Today I tell my stories face-to-face, online, and in a memoir coming soon. Telling our stories leads to freedom, empowerment, and growth, for both the teller and the told. Is today your once upon a time, your time to tell your story?
