Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 12 minHello, April - March was the Cruel Month This YearApril is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. - excerpt from The Waste L...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 28, 20152 minThe Gospel According to this MomentAbove all, we cannot afford not to live in the present….the gospel according to this moment. – Henry David Thoreau, Walking Yesterday, I got out of bed alrea...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonOct 15, 20142 minMidweek MusingsToday, I was driving back from the Post Office when I pulled up at a stoplight behind a small car. I can’t tell you what kind it was, because its logo didn’t...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonJan 3, 20141 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. Happy New Year everyone! I love January. I love its cold and its silence, its open spaces that appear when the h...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonJul 5, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for Friday – Summer Photo SeriesHappy post-Fourth Friday. photo credit: KCMickelson.
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonJun 18, 20132 minTransitions and EpiphaniesTransitions, however abrupt, have layers of subtleties. The subtleties are the surprising bits. This is what I wrote in a notebook yesterday when I was calle...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMay 14, 20133 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Reconsider How You Define "End"Shift #52: Reconsider How You Define “End” In the year since I began my “52 Ways to Shift Your Focus” series, I’ve loved thinking about all the ways people g...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMay 7, 20133 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Stop ApologizingShift #51: Stop Apologizing Remember when you were nearing graduation, figuring out what you wanted to do with your life? Maybe you got advice, suggestions, ...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMay 3, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. 1. Minnesota spring weather and boomerangs – similarities? 2. What keeps you awake at night? 3. The last group d...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 30, 20132 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Live With Some MysteryShift #50: Live With Some Mystery Two weeks ago, I wrote about my mom’s WearEver chili pot (Shift #48: Remembering Connections) and a friend of mine, who rea...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 24, 20133 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: The Gift of Being UnpreparedShift #49: The Gift of Being Unprepared On Monday, my son Shawn arrived at my house ready to finally, after several years, clean out his old art studio that ...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 16, 20133 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Remembering ConnectionsShift #48: Remembering Connections On Sunday evening, I was doing what I love to do: cooking for my family, sipping wine (Sterling Vintner’s Collection Centr...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 5, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. 1. A room with a view – my view is the Pacific Ocean. What’s yours? 2. Travel is miraculous. 3. What would you l...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonApr 2, 20132 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Memorize a PoemShift #46: Memorize a Poem Yes, today’s blog post is partly inspired by the fact that April is National Poetry Month where I live. It’s also inspired by the ...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 29, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. This week, I was inspired by a mindfulness exercise called The Game of Five from the website, Pocket Mindfulness...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 22, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of art/writing prompts. 1. Take the nicest character you know and find their evil side. 2. My ideal road trip would not include dress-up...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 19, 20132 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Familiar Stories, Alternative ViewpointsShift #44: Familiar Stories, Alternative Viewpoints Lately, I’ve been thinking about how retelling stories from different points of view changes the narrativ...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 8, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for Friday – Photo Fragment FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. It’s Photo Fragment Friday! Enjoy. Nothing better than an odd assortment of images out of context, right? I dare...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 5, 20133 min52 Ways to Shift Your Focus: Show Your EmpathyShift #43: Show Your Empathy Previous posts in this series have talked about pulling weeds (Shift #7), removing obstacles (Shift #10), cleaning out the house...
Kathleen Cassen MickelsonMar 1, 20131 minFirst Five Fragments for FridayYour weekly offering of writing/art prompts. 1. Five things I love about March: spring break, Easter candy, silly St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, the way the...
