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Visit "The Fifth Goddess," an intriguing site from Staci Backauskas. She's written a stunning novel about spiritual searching, struggle, and fulfillment. If you're looking for encouragement and perseverance to create the life of your dreams, read her own inspiring new life story. http://www.fifthgoddess.com/ Explore Catherine's Treasures, a collection of inspiration, humor, and poetry to keep or to send to friends. It's a site to lift the spirits, and the graphics are gorgeous! http://www.catherines-treasures.itgo.com/ If you're serious about writing, you can find sage advice about how to succeed as a writer. Refreshing and inspiring material. Subscribe to the free newsletter.http://www.sff.net/people/holly.lisle/ Send for Lisa Shumicky's fabulous journaling newsletter, "a capacious hold-all: an occasional newsletter about diaries." Send a donation to her at: 32 Fischer Avenue, Islip Terrace, NY 11752 or contact her by e-mail at <lshumick@suffolk.lib.ny.us> Why not make it a daily ritual to visit The Hunger Site, click the little button, and give the gift of food? It's completely free, it only takes a moment, and it gives so much. For more info, and to feed a starving person, visit: http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites One of the best inspirational sites on the web is The Motivational Mecca run by Josh Hinds, a nice young fellow who counts his dad as his number-one mentor. You'll find loads of inspirational and motivational links and information. Subscribe to the free daily newsletter: Inspiration a Day. http://joshhinds.com/excite.html Visit The National Women's Hall of Fame for resources, links, bookstore, exercises, and games to increase understanding of the contribution of women to America.http://www.greatwomen.org/index.html THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. Hot off the Press! Kay Adams's latest book has just been released. "The Write Way to Wellness: A Workbook for Healing and Change" is now available, along with an audiotape of entrance meditations. It's a user-friendly guide to accessing the benefits of cathartic and reflective writing in your own life. Step-by-step processes and exercises lead you through your own healing journey. Dr. James Pennebaker, leading research scientist in the field of writing and health, says Kay's book "melds clinical wisdom and cutting edge research … smart and beautifully organized." Check out Kay's other books too, and order direct from The Center for Journal Therapy by calling 1-888-421-2298 or go to: http://www.journaltherapy.com/book.htm Have you visited "Camp SARK" yet? Is your inner child in need of some R & R? If it's time to let your imagination run amok, get out your crayons, put on your most outrageous outfit, and trundle on over to SARK's refreshing website. If you have to ask "What's a SARK?" then you need to go at least once! http://www.campsark.com/ “A Good Read” is actually a great read! Artist/author/sculptor Judith Tramayne-Barth has searched the web to bring you a wealth of resources: free software, fabulous sites for writers, a free murder mystery, and more fascinating links than you can imagine. http://www.agoodread.com/ The “Homefires Hearth” website offers recipes, money-saving household tips, and articles on making your home all it can be. Sign up for the free newsletter and browse through the archives for practical home ideas. Go to “Making and Giving Journal Jars” for a ready-to-make jar for a gift or for yourself. Three pages of prompts to print out and cut. http://www.homefireshearth.com/issues/jj.html “Into the Centre,” is a free newsletter from psychotherapist and corporate trainer Wayne C. Allen. It has an emphasis on insightful living, healthy relationships, and body-mind issues. Free, downloadable resources. Take time to search the archives for a life-changing article entitled “No One is Coming.” http://www.phoenixcentre.com/ Eldonna Bouton’s newest book is “Journaling From the Heart,” featuring 75 assignments taken from her online workshops. Includes guidelines for getting the most out of your independent journal work and forming a journaling support group, along with an extensive bibliography of journaling books and resources. Order direct at: http://www.whole-heart.com/index.html Visit Jennifer Louden’s deep-comfort website. She’s the author of “The Women’s Comfort Book,” “The Couple’s Comfort Book,” and “The Women’s Retreat Book” (in which journaling figures prominently). Check out her links and subscribe to her free newsletter. http://www.comfortqueen.com/. If there are children in your life, you (and they) will love these two craft recipe sites many deliciously messy play dough formulas. The first site features several recipes for “slime” and “goofy putty,” along with giant bubble liquid, invisible ink, soap crayons, and rock candy: <http://www.melborponsti.com/crafts/index.shtml> The SOAR site has many potpourri recipes, along with sidewalk chalk, bubble solution, body paint, chemical volcanoes, soap, candles, and a crystal garden to grow. <http://SOAR.Berkeley.EDU/recipes/crafts/> Gardening: For the gardeners or would-be-gardeners on your list, a lavishly illustrated gardening book or two would be heaven. Add some seed packets, gloves, a few gardening tools, and you have a thoughtful and practical gift basket. And who wouldn’t be delighted with a pot or three of some mid-winter bulbs of hyacinth, narcissus, or daffodils. You can order them sent direct from Burpee (http://www.burpee.com/) or plant them yourself. If you’re a gardener somewhere deep in your heart (never mind the actuality of the thing), you’ll want catalogs from Gurney and Burpee for dreaming and writing purposes. The Gurney catalog arrives in January: <http://www.gurney.com/> THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. For garden tools, clothing, and design resources, and much, much more: http://www.smith-hawkin.com/html/resource/rsc_default.jhtml Sometimes you just take a deep breath and decide to move forward with your life. Is it time for you to take that next step? In your heart of hearts, do you want to make a more serious commitment to the creative life? Then this may be the right time for you to develop your self- expression and creativity at Writes of the Imagination. Founded by Cindy Clarke and Becky Short, this new online writing and creativity studio has an eclectic calendar of classes on writing, literature, art, and creativity, each unique in its perspective and approach to the learning process. Dedicated, competent, and creative instructors are eager to assist and nurture you in reaching your personal goals. New courses are being developed and added regularly. Second term Winter Session classes begin February 26, 2000. http://www.writesoftheimagination.com/ Grab a cup of hot cocoa and snuggle into a quilt as you follow Kay Richards' daily adventures and astute observations. in "Letters from New England." She's moving! At last! Yesssssss! Favorite books, sites, links, her favorite online journals. Pure sunshine. What a comfort! http://members.xoom.com/jrnlwtr/frontpage.htm Ready to hang out with other writers? See what's brewing at "Coffeehouse For Writers," where you'll find critique groups, workshops, The Poetry Café, the "Fiction Fix" newsletter, a monthly grammar quiz, chat groups, writer buddy classifieds, tips for surviving the writing life, daily prompts, and much more. http://www.coffeehouse4writers.com/index.html If your goals include exploring and understanding your deepest self, searching for meaning, rewriting your inner dramas, or writing well-constructed fiction, you'll want to visit the "StoryCraft" site to check out new story development software. John Jarvis, a professional screenwriter, developed the software based on his extensive study of classical mythology, Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, and Jungian psychology. Jarvis teaches a series of online writing courses and offers "StoryTeller," a free email newsletter that contains in- depth articles about the mythological method as the most universal and most powerful way of expressing art. http://www.writerspage.com/ For getting the most out of life, you can't beat Ray Whiting's "Two Scoops" daily newsletter. You'll find writing and journaling articles, practical wisdom for handling life's challenges, and Ray's own unique insights. Many links and resources. He also publishes the "KickNIC!!!" newsletter for would-be nonsmokers. http://www.twoscoops.com/ THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. For daily insight and inspiration, you'll want to subscribe to Kevin Eikenberry's daily "Powerquotes." You'll receive a powerful quotation with three questions to ponder. Suitable for writing prompts. http://discian.com/pq.htm Join fellow seekers at "Higher Awareness." You'll find workbooks, resource lists, growth tips, and great links. Sign up for the free weekly inspirational newsletter. http://www.higherawareness.com/ Whether you're a business person or are looking for practical tips, inspiration, humor, and solid motivational reading, subscribe to therapist/coach Philip Humbert's weekly, resource-packed "Weekly Tips" newsletter for personal development. You'll always find "keepers" there for your files. http://www.philiphumbert.com/ Meet cultured and fascinating people who share your passion for your favorite composers and more at "Classical Music Lovers' Exchange." "For many, a shared love of classical music is a sign of much broader common interests and is a wonderful basis for beginning a meaningful relationship." Members all over the country include many professional musicians. Monthly newsletter includes updates on members' activities, concerts, performances, accomplishments, marriages. http://www.cmle.com/ "Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends," wrote Silas Mitchell, who is quoted at the "Single Booklovers" site. Meet fellow readers through the monthly newsletter and at Single Booklover dinners scattered throughout the country. Newsletter includes member-written book reviews, items of interest for avid readers, news of members' activities, and announcements of marriages between members. http://www.singlebooklovers.com/about.html If you're such a bookworm that you read cereal boxes and jar labels, you'll adore the Bas Bleu catalog, a literary feast of hard-to-find, unusual, and fascinating books to fall in love with. Many books about writing and writers. Rich and loving descriptions. Also find games, jewelry, accessories, gorgeous greeting cards. http://www.basbleu.com/basics/index.html "Through giving, helping, and growing beyond personal self-interest, elders can express an ongoing commitment to the greater community," writes Rav Zalman Schachter- Shalomi. His Spiritual Eldering Institute in Boulder, Colorado teaches the liberating truth of aging as a great spiritual adventure. Workshops and training seminars are offered throughout the country with an emphasis on "Life Harvest" through journaling. In "Age-ing to Sage-ing," Reb Zalman writes about elders as "keepers of the flame," healers, judges, and "living history books." At the website, you'll find books, tapes, resources, and a workshop schedule. Become a member and sign up for the newsletter at: The Spiritual Eldering Institute, 970 Aurora Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302. (303-449-7243). http://www.SpiritualEldering.com/ THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. "Knowledge is not information, it is transformation," said Osho. Through "Cosmic Jokes for Inspiration and Elevation," you can cultivate the neutral mind in the midst of everyday sticky situations and use those irritations, your reactions, and your frustrations to reach a state of awe and wonder. Jokes and quotations from Eastern and Western traditions are used to "poke, provoke, confront, and elevate." Humor can be your teacher in learning the nature of attachment and release. Here's a sample from the first issue:Mulla Nasrudin's face lit up as he recognized the man who was walking ahead of him down the subway stairs. He slapped the man so heartily on the back that the man nearly collapsed, and cried, "Goldberg, I hardly recognized you! Why, you have gained thirty pounds since I saw you last. And you have had your nose fixed, and I swear you are about two feet taller." The man looked at him angrily. "I beg your pardon," he said in icy tones, "but I do not happen to be Goldberg." "Aha!" said Mulla Nasrudin, "so you have even changed your name?" http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/innerfreedom/inspire.html SoulfulLiving. Awaken to the fullness of life with this online guide for whole life living. Soulful themes of interest are explored each month with highly-regarded experts and best-selling authors, in a soulful and interactive environment, rich with meaning and connection, for souls seeking something more from life and the Internet.http://www.soulfulliving.com/ Check out the world’s largest directory of links to spiritual, personal growth, and healing-related web pages. Learn about nature’s way to health with body, mind, and soul healer, Rita Louise, ND. With over 20 years of healing experience, Dr. Louise works with “the whole person,” addressing physical, emotional, and spiritual issues to prevent and heal illness and to restore harmony and order to all levels of human functioning. She employs medical intuition, clairvoyant readings, nutritional counseling, health assessment, vibrational healing, and spiritual counseling. Dr. Louise can work with you by phone, and can schedule a consultation by email. Be sure to bookmark her site for future reference. http://www.soulhealer.com/ It’s new! It’s gorgeous! It’s inspiring! And you can get an issue of RealSimple Magazine for free. A guide to serene spaces, one-dish dinners, getting rid of junk mail, stressless living, small pleasures, and creating calm in the midst of chaos. Take time to reflect and recharge, choose quality over quantity, know the power of simple beauty, and nourish your body and soul. Order your free trial issue today.http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/ Noted for his poetry, prose, and spiritual insights, Tagore tells "we were born for something wildly and brilliantly better," writes Jon Spayde of Utne Reader. He lifts us to the heights of human aspiration and values. He was the first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. To explore his luminous writings, you might want to begin with these links:http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/texts/india/tagore.htm, http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~achatt1/Bio/rabi.html, http://www.indiaworld.co.in/subscribe/rec/stories/may27-98essaytag.html, http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1913a.html Have you read the rave reviews about the online courses at Writes of the Imagination? Is it time for you to nurture your creative life? Then check out the course offerings for Spring Semester. Registration closes April 29, so get ready to commit to taking care of your deepest needs. Courses include a series of four creative writing classes of six weeks each (New Life Stories, Keeping the Dream Alive, Breaking Through Writer's Block, Writing and Revising) and a two-part novel writing series (New Life Stories, Writing It!). Other courses are: Creativity, Independence, and Spirit, The New Diary in the New Millennium, Your Life as Story, Write With Style, and a new class called Wisdom From Our Mentors: Inspiration for the Writing Life. You'll find inspiring teachers, a community of enthusiastic fellow writers, and surprisingly affordable fees.http://www.writesoftheimagination.com/ Kay Richard has written a wonderful series of articles on writing and health. You can read them at: http://members.xoom.com/jrnlwtr/column, http://members.xoom.com/jrnlwtr/tgncol2.htm, http://members.xoom.com/jrnlwtr/tgncol3.htm, http://members.xoom.com/jrnlwtr/tgncol4.htm Ahhhhhhhh, comfort! In this age of information overload, stress, and rush-rush/run-run, we all need a healthy portion of comfort. Revel in the deep comfort to be found at Jennifer Louden's wonderful website. She also has a new book coming out in May, The Comfort Queen's Guide to Life, along with luscious comfort goods, starting with greetings cards and journals by Portal. http://www.comfortqueen.com/ will soon be an interactive daily living site that is like walking into your best friend's house, relaxing onto her fluffy couch, knowing she has just what you need that day: inspirational advice, comforting ideas and even a few goodies. Subscribe to her comfort reminders, use her weekly inner organizer, send yourself a love note or someone you love a comfort card, or talk to other comfort mavens about how you live by what you treasure. It's all coming soon! Sign up now at:http://www.comfortqueen.com/. If you're interested in writing for children or young people, by all means, look into joining The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Their URL is: http://www.scbwi.org/. This is the premiere organization and clearing house of information for children's book creators. Time to "reach out and touch someone?" The weekly Penpals and More Newsletter, brings you free penpal listings, email pals, snailmail pals and more, right to your inbox every week. There's everything from hobbies and swaps to dating and just keeping in touch. To subscribe:http://penpalsandmore.8m.com/ Awaken to the fullness of life with SoulfulLiving, an online guide for whole life living. Soulful themes of interest are explored each month with highly-regarded experts and best- selling authors in a soulful and interactive environment, rich with meaning and connection, for souls seeking something more from life and the Internet. This month, the focus is on turning our attention inward and healing our souls through written self-expression. Soulful Features include articles by communications and writing authority, Henriette Klauser; journaling expert and workshop leader, Eldonna Bouton; journaling teacher and psychotherapist, Kathleen Adams; personal coach and journaling authority, Joyce Chapman; autobiographical writing expert and teacher, Tristine Rainer; minister and life coach, Ray Whiting; an artist and hypnotherapist, Lori Dixon. Many other wonderful resources, including Soulful Connection, a soulful discussion for like-minded souls. Visit this beautiful and inspiring site today, and be sure to enter to win a set of three gemstone journals from Ventana.http://www.soulfulliving.com/ Writers Open Workshop contains 50+ markets in every issue, features on selling your work world wide, interviews and book reviews. Recently featured in wired.com/ and new Statesman. http://www.welcome.to/Regentbooks/ or email voyagemag@zyworld.com/?subject=WOWsubs Got all your ducks in a row? Turn plans into accomplishments! Create quality relationships! Maintain healthy balance! Successful people do all three, says Roberta Shaler, PhD, speaker, consultant, executive coach and psychotherapist. Her free weekly ezine-Life Lined Up!- will give you the tools, insights, ideas and strategies to achieve your highest goals. Dr. Shaler will guide you to find your purpose and passions, AND offer weekly support and strategies for staying on the path to SUCCESS ON YOUR OWN TERMS! Subscribe now and check out the many resources on her web page:http://www.getlifelinedup.com/ Check out the world's largest directory of links to spiritual, personal growth, and healing-related web pages. Learn about nature's way to health with body, mind, and soul healer, Rita Louise, ND. With over 20 years of healing experience, Dr. Louise works with "the whole person," addressing physical, emotional, and spiritual issues to prevent and heal illness and to restore harmony and order to all levels of human functioning. She employs medical intuition, clairvoyant readings, nutritional counseling, health assessment, vibrational healing, and spiritual counseling. Dr. Louise can work with you by phone, and can schedule a consultation by email. Be sure to bookmark her site for future reference.http://www.soulhealer.com/ It's new! It's gorgeous! It's inspiring! And you can get an issue of RealSimple Magazine for free. A guide to serene spaces, one-dish dinners, getting rid of junk mail, stressless living, small pleasures, and creating calm in the midst of chaos. Take time to reflect and recharge, choose quality over quantity, know the power of simple beauty, and nourish your body and soul. Order your free trial issue today.http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/ From Lisa Lorden's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome page at About.com/: WRITE NOW: Maintaining a Creative Spirit While Homebound and Ill, by Susan Dion. This guide to maintaining the creative spirit through writing while ill and homebound is available without charge to patient groups, service providers, and others. The book is made possible through a generous grant from the Puffin Foundation Ltd. And via support from the Townsend Press. The Puffin Foundation supports projects that encourage "a dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people." The 92-page WRITE NOW provides many insights on the benefits of writing when one is ill, limited, or confined for lengthy periods. The guide suggests numerous ideas and exercises to tap a creative spirit, covering everything from lists and letters to poems and fiction. Several people living with long-term health problems share thoughts and writings in the volume. They range from teenager to elderly; from several months to a lifetime of disability; from novice writer to published poet; and from Connecticut to California. WRITE NOW offers a welcome dose of help and hope to all. WRITE NOW has been used by people of varied ages and circumstances throughout the U.S. and abroad. They've coped with diverse illnesses, disabilities, and injuries. While many have benefited from using WRITE NOW at home, the guide also has been successfully utilized in hospices, assisted-living communities, hospitals, veterans' health agencies, and nursing homes; by support groups and out- patient services; in counseling and occupational, recreational, and art therapies; and more. To disseminate the guide to a wide audience, there is an unusually generous open-duplication policy: organizations, agencies, or individuals are encouraged to make additional copies for others. To receive a free print copy of WRITE NOW, please send a self-addressed and stamped ($1.21 in postage), 6x9 (oversized) envelope. For print requests outside the U.S.A., send eight internationa postal coupons or $5.00, U.S. funds.) The guide is available for desktop publishing or personal use on a Macintosh in Microsoft Word 4.0 in consecutive-page and printer's saddle-stitch forms. To receive, send a 3.5" disk (DD or HD) and self-addressed, appropriately-sized return mailer with correct postage. Address requests and all correspondence to: S. Dion/WRITE NOW, 432 Ives Avenue, Carneys Point, New Jersey, 08069 U.S.A.http://chronicfatigue.about.com/health/chronicfatigue/library/blwritenow.htm Did you feast on Sylvia Plath's journals in the 1980's and wish you could write like her, but without all the angst? Her full, unexpurgated (except for the pages Ted burned) journals are now newly published. There's an analysis of the new material by Katherine Viner: "Who Is Sylvia?"http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,147985,00.html You might also enjoy a Telegraph article, offering its own analysis of the journals:"The 'Demon' That Killed Sylvia."http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,147985,00.html If you love birds, like to feed them, or enjoy birding, you'll be thrilled with the resource-packed Wild Birds site. If you're lucky enough to live near one of their retail stores, you're in for a treat! They're staffed by knowledgeable and helpful employees who care about birds as much as you do. Now's the time to plant for attracting birds and butterflies.http://www.wildbirds.com/ Don't forget to subscribe to Journey, the monthly newsletter from Writing The Journey. Check out the Online Journal Writing Workshop, too. You'll find articles, contests, exercises, community updates, and much more...http://www.WritingTheJourney.com/ DARE 2 BELIEVEDive deep with Tom Derosier, writer, speaker, trainer, and ex-submarine sailor. On his personal development site, you'll find inspirational and provocative feature articles, a success tutorial, and links to great sites. Subscribe to his motivational e-zine at: http://www.dare2believe.com/ |
