Essays
MOST RECENT ESSAY (November 20, 2024) Reflecting at water’s edge is an age-old human activity. Water bodies are after all nature’s original mirror. My most recent essay offers reflections on how a visit to Walden Pond with a friend to paint Autumn’s fading palette of reds and golds “en plein air” resulted in an abundance of reflection, introspection, connection and balance.
Through the Looking Glass: Nature's Restorative Mirror
Welcome to The Creative Convergence! Here, essays, stories, and art come together to shift perspectives and transform how we see ourselves, our communities, and the world. We create opportunities to express our individuality by overlapping our passions in ways that are unique to us. Where our passions converge lies a sweet center, a place where we feel …
On The Importance of Essays
In 2024, I hit the age of 50. Leading up to that birthday, I found myself needing more than my journal to understand my personal experience of approaching and hitting a milestone. The 1,000 Words of Summer challenge, hosted by Jami Attenberg of CraftTalk sent me on a journey of writing not only essays but short stories.
My first essay, was an inquiry into why I was obsessed with art. Why did I feel compelled to do it? Why did I need to do it? Why does anyone spend hours on art? This led me to the psychology of art and storytelling.
It wasn’t long before I changed my Substack name to Spaghetti Twisted Thoughts having written a short piece that expressed how I feel on most days, twisted up inside.
In that short piece, I wrote: “My most cogent, straightforward articulations of my spaghetti-twisted thoughts and feelings come when I'm least capable of writing them down and most susceptible to twisting an ankle.” Three days later I published it because I am terrible at waiting.
I then delved into the land of fiction and storytelling, culminating in November 2024 with my first experience writing a novel with NaNoWriMo. I met the 50,000 word goal but put it on the backburner to simmer for a bit.
More and More Essays!
I continue to write essays infused with questions about why I am the way I am and why I do what I do.
