My partner, Scott, is a photographer. Earlier this month we went on an artists’ retreat together. We rented a cabin in Colorado and spent part of each day making art. While I sat in the cabin typing away, he loaded up his gear and went in search of beauty. When we got...
Come one, come all! Literature and coffee! I am reading as part of the Cracked Walnut Series. Sunday evening, July 17th, 6:00 – 7:30, at the Dunn Bros at 4648 East Lake Street.
That story I mentioned in my last post, “Challenges (yoga, writing, sex),” the one that is about a sexual encounter, is still a work in progress. For now I am calling it “Gwen’s Window.” I asked my boyfriend to read it–he reads...
I have been thinking about challenges lately. Different varieties of challenges, but challenges each in their way. When life gets challenging, complicated and messy, the first thing to lapse is whatever I do for myself. When we are only responsible to ourselves for a...
Turtle, my beloved kitty has moved on today. She loved to park her rump on my papers, sit in front of my computer, walk across my keyboard, and she always took precedence on my lap over any reading materials. After a hard day of writing we would both get tuckered out...
I'm Alida I help people express their gifts to the world.
I do not believe in formulas. I believe that the stories we are compelled to tell the world make demands on us, and it is our privilege to meet those demands in order to reach the most people in the most authentic and compelling way possible.
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