Writing Archives — EMMpress words and images for mindful humans Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:16:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Writing Archives — EMMpress 32 32 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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]]> Ai Ai (for now) https://www.emmpress.com/ai-ai-for-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-ai-for-now Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:42:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14588 [Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…

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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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]]> 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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]]> The book in me https://www.emmpress.com/the-book-in-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-book-in-me Wed, 28 May 2025 18:40:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12791 I think we all have a book in us. One that includes deep themes and our ancestral family mind. Includes thoughts we can access via time to intermingle…

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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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]]> Titles First (and foremost?) https://www.emmpress.com/titles-first-and-foremost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=titles-first-and-foremost Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:43:17 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8351 I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their process than what things…

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]]> em dash — • middot https://www.emmpress.com/em-dash-middot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=em-dash-middot Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:58:28 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5919 I love punctuation. It has as much to do with the shape and positioning of the glyphs in relationship to words nearby as anything else. Visual, not just…

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]]> Reprise from ’99 – Top Ten Ways to Ease into Effortlessness https://www.emmpress.com/top-ten-ways-to-ease-into-effortlessness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-ten-ways-to-ease-into-effortlessness Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:18:52 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3194 Waaayyy back in the day, I was a life coach with only a handful of clients and an overwhelming desire to churn out hundreds of articles. Most of…

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]]> See something, say something https://www.emmpress.com/see-something-say-something-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=see-something-say-something-good Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:32:12 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2713 My mom has always been an awesome writer. She went back to school when I was 10.  Her professors fawned over her writing which raised money, started programs…

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]]> Black Hat Bots & Mad Gratitude https://www.emmpress.com/black-hat-bots-mad-gratitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-hat-bots-mad-gratitude Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:38:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2665 I have 15 minutes to write this. Black Hat Part Some hack-bot came through this website and inserted viagra ads into some of my paragraphs. It’s not dangerous…

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]]> Vision 2022 https://www.emmpress.com/vision-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vision-2022 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:58:45 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2041 Ever notice how every time a horrible or seemingly unexpected thing occurs, someone finds some sci-fi book* or episode of The Simpsons** that “predicted” it? This morning I…

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]]> Mercy mercy me https://www.emmpress.com/mercy-mercy-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mercy-mercy-me Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:34:19 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=2007 Why do you continue To say that the money is what matters? To tout it as the stuff of life. Why do you perpetuate this fakery, born of…

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]]> Why ask? https://www.emmpress.com/why-ask/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-ask Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:29:57 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1978         Truly great questions are like time-release peace bombs that detonate in real life. – W. Leitzen

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]]> Testimony 2019 https://www.emmpress.com/testimony-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testimony-2019 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:22:29 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2731 This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI’s citizens right to abortion…

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]]> to women who’ve made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness https://www.emmpress.com/this-is-a-shout-out-to-all-women/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-is-a-shout-out-to-all-women Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:55:00 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1948 This is a shout out to all women, like me, who have experienced trauma and made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness. This is a shout out to…

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]]> Dart Dart Dart https://www.emmpress.com/dart-dart-dart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dart-dart-dart Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:10:23 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1942 Dart. Dart. Dart. Rest. Dart. Dart. Dart. Finger, thumb moving. Eyes darting. Soul wondering. Entertainment! A Life! Exciting! Surprising!. Odd. Outrageous. Horrible. Sad. Scroll. Share. Share. Share. Smirk.…

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]]> Four Styles of Defining A Life https://www.emmpress.com/four-styles-of-defining-a-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-styles-of-defining-a-life Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:15:39 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1740 I wrote a chunk of a self-help book over a decade ago. It described the four styles people use to find — and define — meaning in their lives.…

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]]> My poem to you https://www.emmpress.com/my-poem-to-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-poem-to-you Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:17:26 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1633 This poem is one of thanks. And it is for you. Dear friend, you are a woman of extraordinary depth. You feel. You feel for others who forget…

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]]> Write what you want to learn https://www.emmpress.com/write-what-you-want-to-learn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=write-what-you-want-to-learn Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:33:34 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1383 Many years ago, I trained to become a life coach. I went to conference after conference, took 2 years of tele-classes and put myself “out there” as a…

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]]> A message to my son on Mother’s Day https://www.emmpress.com/a-message-to-odin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-message-to-odin Fri, 12 May 2017 13:51:04 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1334 Hi O! You are four now, and not one for lengthy or deep conversations, but there are so many things I want to say to you, so I’ll…

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]]> Post-truth: a convenient lie https://www.emmpress.com/post-truth-a-convenient-lie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-truth-a-convenient-lie Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:55:21 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=802 [originally posted 12/6/2016] In case you haven’t already heard, here I present to you the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year: post-truth. This confection, ahem, conception has…

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]]> Thank you Carrie https://www.emmpress.com/thank-you-carrie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thank-you-carrie Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:41:41 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=924 Take your broken heart, and make it art -Carrie Fisher to Meryl Streep

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]]> This day https://www.emmpress.com/this-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-day Sun, 01 Jan 2017 20:08:56 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=894 I’d love to write something meaningful today, but I’m just relieved not to feel the monkey-gong of emotion hit when I think about PEOTUS. Do you know what…

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]]> New words for the end https://www.emmpress.com/withdramal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=withdramal Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:35:53 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=676 Dear Mr. Trump, I know it is not yet the election, but it is time for me, and you, and your GOP comrades, to stop the showmanship, drama,…

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]]> watching water drops turn to birds https://www.emmpress.com/watching-water-drops-turn-to-birds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watching-water-drops-turn-to-birds Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:00:04 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=610 So, I’ve been missing poetry in my life, or more like, missing the poetry of life.  I used to get my fill by watching period pieces (think Jane…

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]]> Quote Day https://www.emmpress.com/quote-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quote-day Tue, 19 May 2015 16:30:34 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=591 Below are a few quotes that have caused me to pause at different times in my life.  Hope you enjoy them. You can’t get enough of what you…

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]]> Empowering questions* https://www.emmpress.com/empowering-questions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empowering-questions Thu, 14 May 2015 16:05:21 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=582 I’ve got no idea what to write today, so perhaps it is time to feed my mind some new questions to chew on.  Such as;  What can I…

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]]> THAT kind of mom https://www.emmpress.com/that-kind-of-mom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=that-kind-of-mom Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:55:34 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=69 I hoped I’d be one of those awesome moms that was super-conscious, sensitive and mindful, until I realized I was becoming one of those “literary” moms. You know,…

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