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Prime your Journaling Pump with some old Pictures
A lot of times people don’t start their journey into unfiltered writing, healthy writing, because they can’t find a jumping off place....
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 22, 20202 min read
Quit Worrying and Start Writing
I know of no human endeavor that has more naysayers than writing. Everyone is a critic, even if they’ve never tried their hand at putting...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 21, 20201 min read
On Learning of an Old Friend’s Passing
I learned yesterday of the passing of my old friend Sam Underwood. I don’t know what made me think of Sam, but I caught myself putting...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Let your writing take you to your past, present, and future
Journaling is a real trip. It’s a snapshot of where you are now, but it also looks back and forward. I have notebooks here and there that...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 17, 20201 min read
What we and songbirds have in common: powerful language
I ran across an article named The Power of Words by Lisa Feldman Barrett this morning in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper. The lead paragraph...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 15, 20202 min read
The Power of Journaling During the Pandemic
Yesterday public TV ran a bit by historian and biographer Janice Nimura about journaling during the pandemic. The piece grabbed me...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 14, 20202 min read
Write When Words Aren’t Enough
Spirituality has always fascinated me. Now that I have lived a few years, it fascinates me even more. I have had a copy of The Roaring...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 13, 20201 min read
Blackbird, or the Kinship of Music to Writing
This morning at the convenience store I heard Paul McCartney singing “Blackbird,” and it transported me to 1968, a sixteen-year-old kid...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 11, 20201 min read
Getting Up to Speed on Slowing Down
How do you slow down without slowing down? You know what I mean. You spend a lifetime driven to cram X number of things into each day,...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 9, 20201 min read
How Do We Know What is Right?
This morning Joe Biden is President-Elect of the United States. The moment reminds me of 2008 when Obama became the first person of color...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 8, 20201 min read
Bradford Pear Trees, John Prine, Sunrise and Sunset
The leaves are changing still in East Texas, a few days left before the branches are bare of the magic clinging to them. Leaves are...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 7, 20201 min read
The Cheapest, Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself
We all know money can’t buy happiness, or to state it as a positive, the best things in life are free. But we deceive ourselves and chase...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 6, 20201 min read
How Writing Reminds You of the Things that Matter
It’s seven o’clock in the morning in East Texas the day after election day 2020. As I write these words, the U.S. presidential election...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 4, 20201 min read
The calming experience of writing about uncertainty
The first Tuesday in November every four years in the United States of America is presidential election day. If you check the calendar,...
Stephen Woodfin
Nov 2, 20202 min read
How to Write about an Irreplaceable Loss
I suffered an irreplaceable loss yesterday. Not something life-changing or all that significant in the great scheme of themes, but...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 30, 20202 min read
Do You Write When You Don’t Feel Like It?
Should you write when you’re not feeling it? This is one of those questions that gets to the heart of what our Health and Writing blog is...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 27, 20201 min read
How Being Cooped Up Can Set You Free
What if in the privacy of your own home you could accomplish your greatest achievement? You could do what you’ve always wanted? What if...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Want to Feel Better? Write Something Funny
Every Sunday morning, I receive a copy of Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in my email. I learned about her paper when my wife and I were...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 25, 20201 min read
The Matchless Beauty of Unfiltered Words
The great writer Caleb Pirtle paid me a visit yesterday, and as such things go, we soon dove into a conversation about the nitty-gritty...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 24, 20201 min read
The Highest Energy Current is Love
It’s funny how when you enter a new phase of life you discover new realities all around you. When you learn how to drive, you see street...
Stephen Woodfin
Oct 23, 20201 min read
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