To create movement in people's lives so that they will flourish as they write their own story. That's what gets me up in the morning.
Writing
The Key to Writing is [Just] Showing Up…Again, and Again
It’s true.
And also one of the hardest things I do in a mostly regular, albeit deconstructed, way, slugging it out as I fight the imposter syndrome with words and wine (and often whine). It is joy and fear held together with a mysterious optimism that this is something I am meant to do.
I have been writing for as long as I can remember...in Garfield notebooks and fancy embossed girlie journals emblazoned with mermaids or ironic pop art, spiral bound Hilroys, dollar store notebooks, travel themed softcovers that survived my young adult backpack trip across a hot and sweaty Europe in the late 1980s.
I wrote while on my honeymoon (short entries) and when I miscarried my precious babies, through disappointments and loss, through confusion, chaos and on the ordinary Thursdays where parenting happened, field trips took place, grad school research had me in knots...from relational bliss to days when the world felt so very heavy.
I have written workshops and proposals, research papers, poems, scripts, courses and strategic plans, leadership development articles, sermons, studies and recipes. I have written scorching emails and subsequent apologies, brilliant taglines and not so brilliant ones.
And I have so much more to learn.
They say “show your work” so that’s what this page is about. I want to curate the things I write about, the curious and the crap (let’s face it, a lot of what we write about is crap). I really would love to connect with you as writers, readers, publishers and wordy nerds like myself.
Thanks for stopping by.
Keep Showing Up, B
“Being a writer is very peculiar sort of job; it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
2020 Writing Projects
Reframing my Ugly Photos https://shelovesmagazine.com/2020/reframing-my-ugly-photos/
Christ our Mother Incarnate and Embodied Feminine Power https://shelovesmagazine.com/2020/christ-our-mother/
“That Time I Crawled Under My Desk”. (Chapter 8) in the Edited Book, She Writes for Him: Stories of Resilient Faith (May 2020), Redemption Press.
Award Winning Article ~ Christians for Biblical Equality Fall 2020 https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/article/mutuality-blog-magazine/announcing-2020-cbe-writing-contest-winners