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Memory

Month by Month

December 16, 2019 By Nancy Casey

Memory is disorderly, but a calendar is not. Sometimes you can trick unexpected insights from your mind by mapping your disorderly memory onto an orderly calendar. Divide the page into 12 roughly equal sections, each labeled with a month of the year. Scan your memories of the previous year and try to connect the memories with a specific month. When an event occurred. When a … [Read more...] about Month by Month

Yucky Food

November 24, 2019 By Nancy Casey

Write about the foods that you do not or cannot eat. First, name the food by printing it in capital letters. Then write down everything that you find distasteful about this particular food. What is the origin of your revulsion? Does your relationship with this food have a history? Have you ever eaten the foods that you dislike? How do you react? Meditate upon all … [Read more...] about Yucky Food

A Tale of a Table

November 4, 2019 By Nancy Casey

Find a table. They are everywhere--in houses and restaurants, on sidewalks and in parks, at work. You also have tables in your memory and in your imagination. Write a story, true or invented, that includes this table. You could write the history of this table in the world, or the history that a person has with this table. Your history, or someone else's. Write anything … [Read more...] about A Tale of a Table

Wondering Where

October 28, 2019 By Nancy Casey

Use the phrase "I wonder where..." to begin the first sentence that you write. When you don't know where something is, maybe it is lost. Maybe you don't even expect to see it again. You can wonder where a person is, too. You can wonder about a place where something will happen in the future. A person can wonder where something comes from--an idea or an aspect of their … [Read more...] about Wondering Where

Hats Everywhere

October 7, 2019 By Nancy Casey

You don't have to mount much of a search to find a hat. On your head, in your pocket, under the couch. On someone else's head or in their pocket. Hats are everywhere. Write something that has a hat in it. A made-up story, or the real, true adventures of some intrepid hat that you have known. You could write about the social function of hats by asking yourself what certain … [Read more...] about Hats Everywhere

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


Looking for an art project that is secretly full of math? Or a math project that results in interesting art? Equilateral Triangle is an Inquiry Pack full of project ideas that will keep you thinking for a long time.


Writing classes and workshops

In-person Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Center have been suspended for a bit, but you can still do the writing prompts on your own. For more information, about the Write for You program, or if you are in recovery and interested in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

This is a program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho.

Working with the Program Committee, I updated the theme The Humanity of Science and Technology.


Schedule of 2023-24 Let’s Talk About It sessions coming soon!


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