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Conjoint Twins: Fear and Resistance

October 16, 2014 By Mary Montanye 13 Comments

Tomorrow morning, I will awake early, long before daybreak, and drive down to Golden, Colorado for the Women Writing the West annual conference. Even though I've been a member of this wonderful organization for years, this is only … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: Moo Business Cards, retirement, Sarah Selecky, Women Writing the West

When Life Happens…

August 11, 2014 By Mary Montanye 13 Comments

George and I had very specific plans for this summer. We were returning from Colorado to Oregon on June 14th. We had plans to host my brother and sister-in-law in August. I was meeting a friend for a writer's conference in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: change, Colorado, illness, marriage, Oregon, plans, writer's block, Writing

Just when you think your plans are set…

June 19, 2014 By Mary Montanye 10 Comments

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu   We thought we were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: change, Goal-less living, Goals, Lao Tzu, Sandi Amorim

The Rest of the Story

June 4, 2014 By Mary Montanye 12 Comments

For those of you who have read Above Tree Line, you know that, at the end of the book, we make the decision to leave Colorado. We decide it is time to move on, to make our home on the Oregon coast closer to one of our grown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: change, Colorado, grief, Kubler-Ross Stages of Grief, Oregon, Support

How Personal Should We Be When Writing For Others?

May 26, 2014 By Mary Montanye 9 Comments

  Saturday was my 35th wedding anniversary. My husband wasn't home. He was with friends of ours several states away while I was alone with the dogs. If this had happened several years ago--actually quite a few years ago … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: memoir, memoir writing, truth-telling in writing, vulnerability

On my Mother’s 95th Birthday

April 30, 2014 By Mary Montanye 9 Comments

Today is my mother’s birthday. She would be turning 95 if she was still alive. I tried to upload a photograph of her taken when she was 22 back in 1941. My uncle scanned the photograph a few years before he died and it is one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: memoir, Mothers, Writing

How Could You?

April 22, 2014 By Mary Montanye 4 Comments

When I told people I was writing a memoir (or that I'd written and published one) the responses could best be summed in these words: Great!  But how could you? Or perhaps Why would you? Before I address the responses, let's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: Fear, memoir, publishing, Writing

Why it is so hard sometimes, and how to continue anyway.

April 15, 2014 By Mary Montanye

Now that Above Tree Line is published and available, some of my friends and readers are alluding to my courage. Every time I hear or read the word courage applied to me, I experience a moment of confusion. It doesn't compute. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Weekly Blog Tagged With: Coaching, Fear, Finishing, Support, Writing

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  • Conjoint Twins: Fear and Resistance October 16, 2014
  • When Life Happens… August 11, 2014
  • Just when you think your plans are set… June 19, 2014
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  • How Personal Should We Be When Writing For Others? May 26, 2014

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