WRITING

Month: February 2014

Month: February 2014

a breakup letter…

[As I have mentioned, I am currently curating an 8-week writing group (Flywheel) to encourage others.  Each week there is a topic to write on.  This week’s topic is “letter writing” (fiction or non-fiction).  I am posting my own letter below.] (photo credit)  Dear Cereal, I want to start off this letter by acknowledging my unabashed love for you.  You have been good to me and faithful for so very long.  I do not recall our first meeting and I am sorry for that; my memory had not yet formed though I am almost certain you were introduced by my…

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a post from the better half.

I’m putting up another post today from the Flywheel group.  This one is from my wife, Ginny, and she writes about our daughter Lena.  Many of you know that we brought Lena home from Ukraine two years ago.  In those two years, life has been in a constant state of seeking rhythm. We have seen friends less. Seen fewer movies.   Survived on less sleep than advised.   But received more in the way of learning love than we can articulate.  We don’t write about Lena often because sometimes silence is the best way to acknowledge the holy.  The time…

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from the flywheel:: honest (Mallory McCormick)

* the following includes a word that one might use when that same one slams the car door on his or her finger.  if such words are offensive to you, I do not want you to be offended and you may consider yourself warned.   __________________________ As I have mentioned, I have been curating a group called flywheel– a ragtag online community I accidentally assembled by asking on facebook if any wanted to join me for some encouragement and community built around writing.  Somewhere over 50 jumped for an 8-week experiment and and most have held on and it has…

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a breakup letter…

By Matt Mooney | February 26, 2014

[As I have mentioned, I am currently curating an 8-week writing group (Flywheel) to encourage others.  Each week there is a topic to write on.  This week’s topic is “letter writing” (fiction or non-fiction).  I am posting my own letter below.] (photo credit)  Dear Cereal, I want to start off this letter by acknowledging my…

a post from the better half.

By Matt Mooney | February 7, 2014

I’m putting up another post today from the Flywheel group.  This one is from my wife, Ginny, and she writes about our daughter Lena.  Many of you know that we brought Lena home from Ukraine two years ago.  In those two years, life has been in a constant state of seeking rhythm. We have seen…

from the flywheel:: honest (Mallory McCormick)

By Matt Mooney | February 6, 2014

* the following includes a word that one might use when that same one slams the car door on his or her finger.  if such words are offensive to you, I do not want you to be offended and you may consider yourself warned.   __________________________ As I have mentioned, I have been curating a…