Starting A 2013 Monthly Art Journal

Years ago, I taught an online class called Monthly Write where on a certain date each month we would respond to four writing prompts and also include art and pictures. It was a fun class and I treasure that journal. I’ve really had trouble getting back into the habit of keeping any type of journal…

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Mary wrote her life story!

I just have to share with you a blessing I received this week. It was wonderful after all of the sadness that we’ve all experienced since last Friday. Two years ago I taught one of my “Writing Your Story” classes at a local university. I blogged about the class on this post. Below are a…

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All Things Must End

Last night was the fifth and final session of my Journal To The Self® class. This was the first time I’ve taught this basic introduction to journal writing class in many years. What a wonderful group of women and a man! I’ve been asked many times over the years why would anyone need to take…

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Goodbye Heartwriting

Many of you don’t know this, but for years I have had a website called Heartwriting. Originally it was heartwriting.com. In 2007 with selling houses, buying a house, and getting married, I took down the site to get settled. I reopened the site as heartwriting.biz (.com was gone). From those sites I taught many online…

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Art Journal Interview

I am so excited! I was interviewed last month by Wellness & Writing Connections for their January newsletter about my art journal and it’s now out! The interview has now been taken down so I’ve included it in this post. —————————— Lynda, would you please introduce yourself to our readers and share how you began…

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In The Mail

It’s been a wonderful week so far regarding mail here at Happy Acres. A couple of the goodies include this book. What is neat about this book is that on page 180 in the Managing Transitions chapter is my article “Using dialogue to move on with my life.” I wrote (and rewrote) this article many…

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