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Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Nov 6, 2012
- 1 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus – Election Day Hiatus
If you live in the United States, shift your focus to participation in your local democracy. Vote!
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Oct 23, 2012
- 2 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #27: Revisit Freewriting Today, it’s rainy. Gray. Leaves that still cling to the trees are bejeweled with drops of water that dangl...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Oct 16, 2012
- 2 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #26: Complete Characters Warning: this may be my most self-indulgent post. But, in the end, I will relate this to how we make our a...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Sep 25, 2012
- 2 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #23: Get a Creative Card Deck Recently, my friend Suzannah sent me a gift. Suzannah is a fiber artist with whom I’ve been friends f...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Sep 18, 2012
- 2 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #22: Read Your Stuff Out Loud Writers tend to be quite comfortable in front of the computer or behind the covers of a book. We try ...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Sep 11, 2012
- 3 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #21: Be a Tourist in Your Own Town For the past few weeks, I’ve prepared for a visit with some friends from England. This is their ...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Aug 28, 2012
- 3 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #19: Practice Your Depth of Observation – Photograph Someone Else’s Big Event Today’s shift in focus idea is literal. Most of us ha...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Aug 21, 2012
- 3 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
Shift #18: Start a New Journal Several years ago, I taught a journaling class to a grief support group for parents who had lost a child. ...
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
- Aug 14, 2012
- 1 min
52 Ways to Shift Your Focus
On the road….that’s where I am today. I’m visiting Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the round of college tours for my daughter, Abby. So in...
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