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Writing Your Life: Spring 2013 Nine-Week Class

SpotlightFebruary 12, 2013436Views 0Likes 0Comments

Join the fun and sign up for our next nine-week Writing Your Life class, which begins on Thursday, March 14th and runs through Thursday, May 9th. Classes are held on eight consecutive Thursdays from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. at the Marks Street Recreational Center in downtown Orlando. On the ninth week of class, we enjoy a…

Photo memories

SpotlightFebruary 6, 2013597Views 0Likes 0Comments

Call to mind a photograph of you as a child that is familiar to you. It may be one that hung on the wall of your home throughout your growing up years or possibly, an image of your young self you’ve recently seen for the first time. How old are you in the photograph? What…

Lesson in love

SpotlightJanuary 30, 2013617Views 0Likes 0Comments

Today, let’s write about love. Who is it or was it in your life who taught you the most about love? What did they teach you? How did they teach you about love? Pay attention to the first name or image that pops into your mind. It might not be who you expect, but don’t…

Stuffed…lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my!

SpotlightJanuary 23, 2013631Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, I decided I needed a little visual help in promoting my book, Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time, so I ventured into a Toys R Us store for the first time in my life and searched until I found just what I was looking for—Alphie the Elephant. Alphie is so…

New Year Resolutions

SpotlightJanuary 2, 2013404Views 0Likes 0Comments

Well, it’s the year 2013, and we have to write about resolutions, those firm decisions we make at the start of each New Year. Yesterday, I heard about a holiday called Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day, celebrated on January 17th, the most common date to give up commitments. The practice is common enough to have…

Holiday memories

SpotlightDecember 26, 2012568Views 0Likes 0Comments

As we prepare to close the door on 2012, Christmas, Hanukkah and holidays, what moment from this season will you remember? Is it a happy moment or a sad one? Describe this instance in detail? Who does it involve? Where were you? What happened? What about this moment makes it so memorable? Set your timer…

These are a few of my favorite things

SpotlightDecember 19, 2012521Views 0Likes 0Comments

We all have our favorite things. These items need not be expensive or valuable in worldly terms, but to us, they are priceless. We can’t imagine living without them. They may remind us of wonderful days gone by, provide comfort or make us feel beautiful. So today, let’s write about a favorite thing from your childhood,…

Reclaiming a life…The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel

Love to WriteDecember 12, 2012919Views 0Likes 0Comments

What do you think it would feel like to be ninety-two years old when one day someone hands you back your teenaged self? That’s exactly what happened for Florence Wolfson Howitt in July 2006 when a New York Times reporter reunited Florence with the five-year journal she received as a gift for her fourteenth birthday…

The (holi)days we remember

SpotlightDecember 12, 2012533Views 0Likes 0Comments

After you marvel at today’s date—12-12-12, the last time we’ll have a repeating date like this until January 1, 2101—let’s turn our writing attention to the holidays. We’re in the middle of Hanukkah right now, and Christmas is only thirteen days away, so what are you doing to prepare for the festivities? Do you have…

Sick of being sick

SpotlightDecember 5, 20121KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I’m sick today, fighting a bad cold or flu or something. I say my husband gave it to me; he says I took it from him. Regardless, I feel crummy, so we are going to write about being sick today, not the in-the-hospital kind of sick but the not feeling well that interrupts your normal…

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Writing Your Life: Spring 2013 Nine-Week Class

Photo memories

Lesson in love

Stuffed…lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my!

New Year Resolutions

Holiday memories

These are a few of my favorite things

Reclaiming a life…The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel

The (holi)days we remember

Sick of being sick

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