Writing Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/writing/ words and images for mindful humans Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:52:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Writing Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/writing/ 32 32 Sex & Death in the time of Kali Yuga https://www.emmpress.com/sex-death/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sex-death Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:43:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=19297 I have 20 minutes to write this, so lucky for you, it should be short. When I was around 15 years old, my mother announced one random day,…

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]]> Disambiguation https://www.emmpress.com/disambiguation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disambiguation Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:56:03 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18975 How a bold brain chat changed my ability to understand what people are talking about. About two years back, my left and right brain hemispheres had a bit…

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]]> Making a statement https://www.emmpress.com/making-a-statement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-a-statement Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:58:36 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18747 I love this concept. And I’ve seen the power of making statements play out for those who know the power of words and also carry good character and…

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]]> Declaration of Independence https://www.emmpress.com/declaration-of-independence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=declaration-of-independence Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:29:07 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18762 How a powerful document did what it was supposed to do. There are dozens of declarations that we could look at more closely, but today, I’d love discuss…

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]]> How to publish a book https://www.emmpress.com/how-to-publish-a-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-publish-a-book Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:37:47 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18632 I’m a big proponent of the idea that we teach what we most need to know, so today I’m starting today to log my progress publicly. See, I…

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]]> Taking time… https://www.emmpress.com/taking-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-time Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:35:34 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=18269 On “taking time for oneself,” rest, idiomatic expressions, etymology, and art from this week. I occasionally steal time to do things like watch movies, walk in nature, write…

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]]> What happened to the chicken bag? https://www.emmpress.com/what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:51:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17129 The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…

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]]> What’s your best marketing plan? https://www.emmpress.com/whats-your-best-marketing-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-your-best-marketing-plan Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:14 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16993 Answer: the one you will actually do. No one needs to elaborate any more than this, but I will write like wild anyway because I’m a human who…

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]]> Writing for focus & fittings https://www.emmpress.com/writing-for-focus-fittings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-for-focus-fittings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:01:37 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16228 Who else makes things for the sake of focus? In my world, the process of writing gives me a coherent sense of thought, a long and lovely sound…

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]]> Jamestown, RI https://www.emmpress.com/jamestown-ri/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jamestown-ri Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:30:37 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15699 Chapter One: Rock I grew up on “the rock,” otherwise known as Jamestown, RI. A place of roughly the same geographical spread as Manhattan, but far fewer people…

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]]> “Came by it honestly” https://www.emmpress.com/came-by-it-honestly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=came-by-it-honestly Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:37:13 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15585 Fiction vs non and protecting people and privacy while writing. My mother in law used this expression a while back and I found it immediately empowering. That’s because…

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]]> A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy https://www.emmpress.com/a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-visual-peace-art-as-alchemy Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:50:09 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=15324 Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art, music, poetry, and stories…

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]]> Audience https://www.emmpress.com/audience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=audience Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:22:27 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14845 A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…

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]]> What do you call utopia? https://www.emmpress.com/what-do-you-call-utopia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-do-you-call-utopia Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:32:59 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14520 With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…

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]]> Admitting Conflation https://www.emmpress.com/admitting-conflation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=admitting-conflation Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:54:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14085 See, I’m on a self-study immersion in the English language and American culture so as to become a better writer. And my course is pretty sloppy and more…

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]]> When a mound of sand sends you to the stratosphere https://www.emmpress.com/when-a-mound-of-sand-sends-you-to-the-stratosphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-a-mound-of-sand-sends-you-to-the-stratosphere Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:24:26 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14068  Originally published as newsletter 09/24/2025 This photo above is of sand mound about 10 inches wide, and reminds me of hurricane clouds. In this photo I also see…

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]]> pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI. https://www.emmpress.com/pushy-derivative-thieving-lying-bastard-child-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pushy-derivative-thieving-lying-bastard-child-ai Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:39:01 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14051 Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…

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]]> You won’t all get this, and that’s okay https://www.emmpress.com/you-wont-all-get-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-wont-all-get-this Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:27:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13826 Menopause is like a pack of wolves in a bitch’s clothing. So fun to play with tools like Facebook color boxes, then turn them on their head by…

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]]> The inhumanity of over-helpfulness https://www.emmpress.com/the-inhumanity-of-over-helpfulness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-inhumanity-of-over-helpfulness Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:30:30 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13744 In my digital world, where AI is proliferating, technological “helpfulness” can sanitize language between humans to the point where it is blocking real human-to-human communication. Let me explain.…

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]]> Good Mourning https://www.emmpress.com/good-mourning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-mourning Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:34:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13725 Originally Published Via newsletter on 8/5/2025 I’ve been thinking a of writing a series of good morning letters in honor of my mom, who was Yelp before there…

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]]> Concise https://www.emmpress.com/concise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=concise Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:04:58 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13488 I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…

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]]> Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile https://www.emmpress.com/believing-knowing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=believing-knowing Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:56:03 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13449 The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…

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]]> Becoming a writer https://www.emmpress.com/becoming-a-writer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=becoming-a-writer Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:35:42 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13229 Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…

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]]> Process sans plans & perfection https://www.emmpress.com/process-over-perfection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=process-over-perfection Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:13:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13170 [originally published in weekly newsletter] I feel at a loss of what to say here today, but my hands love to write, and I made a commitment to…

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]]> Feedback is free https://www.emmpress.com/feedback-is-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feedback-is-free Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:40:07 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13063 On a lovely 15 mile (!) hike with a good friend yesterday I learned about feedback. Specifically, that some folks seek it and some don’t. I do. I…

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]]> Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin https://www.emmpress.com/validation-credentialing-terms-of-endearment-for-non-credentialed-kin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=validation-credentialing-terms-of-endearment-for-non-credentialed-kin Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:54:33 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12982 I’ve been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased either; preferring instead to practice…

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]]> IT https://www.emmpress.com/it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it Sat, 17 May 2025 17:05:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12417 I have had a love-hate relationship with the word “it” in all of its permutations. There, I admitted it. In my book, it is not exactly a Term…

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]]> Why I make my work freely available https://www.emmpress.com/why-i-make-my-work-publicly-available/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-i-make-my-work-publicly-available Sun, 11 May 2025 16:55:52 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12129 plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art. And I understand the value of artists…

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]]> Dragons, science fiction, and how fearsome archetypes can help you heal your inner life https://www.emmpress.com/dragons-sci-fi-and-how-fearsome-archetypes-in-literature-can-help-you-heal-your-inner-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dragons-sci-fi-and-how-fearsome-archetypes-in-literature-can-help-you-heal-your-inner-life Fri, 02 May 2025 11:33:58 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11924 I love stories. And I crave movies that sweep me away… and not just for sake of distraction. Stories help heal my inner cast of characters: that chorus…

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]]> Frequent, see? https://www.emmpress.com/frequent-see/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frequent-see Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:43:16 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11813 A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using frequencies. The number…

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]]> Popes, Psychics, Refugees, and the Power of Love https://www.emmpress.com/popes-psychics-refugees-and-the-power-of-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=popes-psychics-refugees-and-the-power-of-love Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:20:01 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11643 My mom called me first thing this morning: “Elizabeth, did you call me last night?” No mom. “Are you sure?” Maybe I did a butt dial. What’s going…

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]]> Weaving as an act of wholeness https://www.emmpress.com/weaving-as-an-act-of-wholeness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weaving-as-an-act-of-wholeness Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:06:39 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11287 Do you have a way to engage in the things you loved doing as a child? How would you feel if you did? These last couple of months,…

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]]> Terms of Endearment – Imbue & Bodhi https://www.emmpress.com/terms-of-endearment-imbue-bodhi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terms-of-endearment-imbue-bodhi Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:05:53 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11220 This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and insight. It’s…

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