by Yolande House | Apr 23, 2020 | Self-Care
As we adjust to the New Normal, I’ve found myself struggling to do a daily routine that once came (more) easily to me. I realized what I needed was a way to check off the essentials of what I aimed to do each day.I searched the Internet and also dug up one of my...
by Yolande House | Sep 22, 2019 | Writing
Following up on my last post about free online writing courses, here are the most transformative paid online writing courses I’ve taken. I resisted paying for a writing course for a long time. Then a fiction-writing friend declared they changed her writing...
by Yolande House | Mar 17, 2019 | Writing
I’m touched by the enthusiastic feedback for my recent Hippocampus Magazine article, “How to Write About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way.” I’m honored that so many people including therapists (!) find it helpful. Knowing this makes the challenges that led to...
by Yolande House | Apr 29, 2016 | Living Abroad
Last month I took the garbage out, intending to immediately go back inside, but I was drawn by the setting sun, which looked like the February snow moon of my birthday week when I was in Canada the month before: low to the horizon and hauntingly large, a bright circle...
by Yolande House | Aug 6, 2015 | Writing
Eat, Pray, Love was one of those books I hated for years before reading it. The set-up of visiting three “I”-countries was a little too convenient to be authentic, and the whole thing came off to me as a lot more pre-planned than the book or its author...
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