A Short Story About Imperfection
It's time for me to finally pick up my woodland writing tablets. Andrew has made them from a black walnut tree just for me. There are...
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The Literary Apothecary
May 30, 20236 min
A Story About Black Walnut
Sometimes a great story begins to take shape long before we know it is going to be a story at all. It can be the little things in life...
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Jun 1, 20223 min
Putting Down Our Fight-or-Flight Armor to Pick Up Healing Mode
When something in our lives, be it physical or emotional, isn’t feeling good, it is human nature to want to protect ourselves against it...
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The Literary Apothecary
Apr 8, 20223 min
It's Time For a Better Story
For reasons I can’t fully explain, the title of this short story popped into my head on a recent early morning as I was stepping out of...
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The Literary Apothecary
Feb 6, 20224 min
How a Classic Tale of Children's Fiction Can Help an Anxious World at Any Age
Imagine a doorway that could be opened in countries around the world to spark new and inspiring ways to face anxiety. And then consider...
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The Literary Apothecary
Jul 16, 20212 min
Asking A Book To Be Curative
Did you know you can ask a book to be curative for you and it will respond? I define anything in my life to be curative when it has...
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The Literary Apothecary
Mar 26, 20212 min
A Bridge To Reconnect Us With The Natural World
Think about the last time you read a piece of good literary fiction. Can you imagine that story without a single sentence describing...
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Jul 26, 20201 min
Your Brain For The Better on Virginia Woolf and Curative Shorts
When we read a Curative Shorts selected short story we are not only lifting our attitudes to antidote discouragement and boost our...
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The Literary Apothecary
May 18, 20202 min
A Spider, A Pig, and Anxiety: How Fiction Can Help Anxious Kids
During the holidays this past year, I felt a blogger, podcaster, "Krista Tippetter" inside of me wanting to escape. I wanted to write,...
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