by parrish | Dec 18, 2024 | Being Human, Creating, Exploring, Mental Health
I’ve always loved a journal. Everything about it. The feel of it in my hands. The soft, blank pages inside. Every journal is an opportunity. Every journal is full of potential. From the little locked diaries of my childhood to beautiful journals handmade by my sister...
by parrish | Nov 11, 2024 | Creating, Mothering
This piece was first published in 2017 as part of an anthology but over the past week, leading up to my first son’s 14th birthday (wtf!!!), it kept coming to mind. Today, on his big day, I pulled it up and reread it and wow… as a writer, it always stuns me...
by parrish | Oct 19, 2023 | Creating, Events
“Only when I began writing did I start living” Writing can free you from what has been holding you back. It offers reflection and release, an opportunity to process emotions and finally give them a home outside of you, on the page. When our messy stories...
by parrish | Feb 23, 2019 | Creating
Sometimes we speak truths that we only know once we hear the words leave our lips. It was one of those moments. The other day, on the back couch in the late afternoon sun. A warm support on the other end of the phone. “I want to blog and I want it to be fun!” Woomph....
by parrish | Oct 4, 2016 | Creating
The thing about writing a memoir is it’s intense in a way that other writing isn’t (though all writing can be, and often is intense) but with a memoir you’re re-living everything important in your life – your old pains, hopes, relationships… The drama. The...
by parrish | Aug 9, 2016 | Creating
I know this will get easier. Once I’m in the flow of writing with my soul leading the way, once I find our rhythm together (because blogging is never just about the writer). Once this happens it will be easier. I will write with confidence. With curiosity. But today,...
