"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in service to my vision, it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."...

"The secret of the creative life is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We are paid to take risks, to look silly. Some...

For this month’s post, I'm embarking on a timely deviation from my discussions about moderating the MFRW Facebook group to talk a litt...

“Don’t be afraid of yourself when you write. Don’t check-rein yourself. If you are afraid of being sentimental, say, for heaven’s sake be as...

Greetings all! Before I get started, I’d like to again give a shout out of thanks to Kayelle Allen , MFRW’s founder, for covering for me her...

"Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything ...

How do you put together an award-winning newsletter?   Well, you could use Word and just write a lot, but that would be kind of borin...

"An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resiliency. Such t...

As of this writing, the MFRW Facebook group is at 3,918 members. While I thought I might perhaps be announcing the 4,000 milestone marker w...

"From the age of six to fourteen I took violin lessons but had no luck with my teachers, for whom music did not transcend mechanical ...

I’m going to get a little technical today and discuss a few of the functions and features of groups on Facebook and how both members and m...

     “Why should we all use our creative power and write or paint or play music, or whatever it tells us to do?                             ...

So far in this series, I’ve talked a lot about things I do from the moderator side of the MFRW Facebook group. I’m shifting gears a little b...

“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is mo...

First, a short announcement: since my last post here about moderating the MFRW Facebook group, the group reached (and passed) 3,000 member...