“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back – to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone to make them – before they can go forward.”  Paule Marshall If I think back to when I was young, to when I was a teenager who allowed herself time to just be, it is easy to see the common thre...

I pulled up an old Super Soul Sunday episode recently.  It was Oprah interviewing Steven Pressfield.  A prolific writer, he was exactly who I was needing to hear from as I work at getting myself in my studio to write on a more regular basis.

I once heard Rainn Wilson, during an interview with Oprah, describe the creation of art as a prayer.  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  I find that when I am away from creating for too long, it affects my psyche.  The longer the span between these artful prayer times, the more negative I be...