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One of my favorite writing spots is the observation deck at Scarborough Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island. It's cool, covered, and where I wrote the entire script for my Joywriting with the Dolphins teleseminar. Once I watched a little girl playing in the waves. She had a long, brunette braid and wore a hot pink and black wetsuit, screaming in delight as the waves teased and tickled her feet. Each time a foamy white cap approached her, she’d jump, squeal, and bob up and d

Hold on to your bonnets, Dear Readers, because the word is out that Jane Austen's father was a trustee of a sugar plantation in Antigua. Could this possibly mean Our Jane truly had family ties to slavery? How disappointing! Amidst the Black Lives Matter movement, there's been some heated discussion online about a controversial addition to the tour displays at the Jane Austen museum in Chawton, England. The museum’s director announced that the Austen family would have consumed

Hot. So. Darn. Hot. I’ve never been a fan of the dog days of summer, so I am very grateful that Nick installed our air conditioners before I seriously began to melt. But there’s one thing that’s really driving me crazy: I’m having a serious banana and coconut craving! Ever since the temperature crept up to 90 degrees last month, I’ve been on the lookout for that lovely banana/coconut aroma that seems to only be found on suntanning bodies at beaches farther away than ou

There was an old radio program back in the ’30s called The Shadow , introduced by these words: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" The first time I learned I have a Shadow Self I wanted to run back into my little hole and hide because I was afraid of the truth. I didn’t want anyone to discover that I actually had a dark side. Because didn’t that make me an evil, wicked person, deserving of cruel and extreme punishment? Once I worked for a w

In my “Loving Pink” heart spa, we learn to raise our vibration of Love by detoxing from fear. We do this through a little exercise I call “heartwriting." Writing Exercise #1 Pick up your pen and paper and for the next 5 minutes, write a list of everything you are afraid of. This could be fear of failure, fear of success, fear of being attacked, fear of animals, fear of loving, fear of losing someone you love…anything you can think of. Think of this exercise as if you wer

It’s no secret that I’m passionate about the ocean. And color. And writing. So when I get a “nudge” to combine all three into one playshop, well, that’s not work—that’s a vacation! Have you ever seen dolphins at play? They’re champions at having fun. They swim, blow bubbles, whistle to their friends and jump and twirl in the air. The ocean is their playground. Writers have a playground, too. It’s called the imagination. One of the many things I’ve learned about dolphins is a