Plein Air Writers

06/16/2021

02/17/2021

by Laurie Marie Carlson It’s icy cold and snowing outside. It’s mid-December and promises to be a nostalgic white Christmas full of bright lights and Mariah Carey singing, All I Want for Christmas is You. Christmas, and the year’s end that follows it, is a bittersweet time for me, now that my children are grown and my marriage is over....

by Laurie Marie Carlson It’s icy cold and snowing outside. It’s mid-December and promises to be a nostalgic white Christmas full of bright lights and Mariah Carey singing, All I Want for Christmas …

02/16/2021

Creating a Balanced Life for Suddenly Single Women Over 50 Hiking Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, on my 69th birthday. By Laurie Marie Carlson, Ph.D Imagine yourself in your late sixties, suddenly divorced after 40+ years married. You’re inexperienced, vulnerable, and alone. You’ve ended your career, feel invisible, and have all the symptoms of PTSD. What do you do? You’re no longer nineteen and figuring out your future, eager to find a partner to make the adventure with....

Creating a Balanced Life for Suddenly Single Women Over 50 Hiking Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, on my 69th birthday. By Laurie Marie Carlson, Ph.D Imagine yourself in your late sixties, suddenly divorced after 40+ years married. You’re inexperienced, vulnerable, and alone. You’ve ended your career, ...

02/16/2021

By Laurie Marie Carlson By now I’ve become pretty adept at taking the lemons life gives me and squeezing them into lemonade--adding sweetener, usually. It’s a way to reframe things gone wrong, so you come away from the experience without becoming bitter or depressed. Reframing experiences pulls us out of our tunnel vision that focuses on narrow interpretations which may not be as true as our emotions lead us to believe....

By Laurie Marie Carlson By now I’ve become pretty adept at taking the lemons life gives me and squeezing them into lemonade--adding sweetener, usually. It’s a way to reframe things gone wrong, so you come away from the experience without becoming bitter or depressed. Reframing experiences pulls ...

02/16/2021

by Laurie Marie Carlson, Ph.D. Welcome to Silver Splitsville, Population: Increasing Join me as we tackle the new frontier of singles life after age 50. Silver singles, gray divorce, whatever you choose to refer to us, we’re a vanguard once again. Just as we were the first to experience the birth control pill, no-fault divorce, and social media, now we’re in the middle of singles life as we face the brink of becoming elderly....

by Laurie Marie Carlson, Ph.D. Welcome to Silver Splitsville, Population: Increasing Join me as we tackle the new frontier of singles life after age 50. Silver singles, gray divorce, whatever you choose to refer to us, we’re a vanguard once again. Just as we were the first to experience the birth ...

12/27/2020

Because Writing is a Hazardous Occupation Photo by Breakingpic on Pexels.com Okay, it's Christmas--lots of cookies and ham and cheese-stuffed potatoes to tempt me. And, I'll dive in. I've taken a diet holiday for Christmas, enjoying every last bite. Now, the day after, it's time to get back to my eating routine, which I've developed over the last two years. I've lost over sixty pounds, and still bargain with that last five which keeps coming and going....

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Because Writing is a Hazardous Occupation Photo by Breakingpic on Pexels.com Okay, it’s Christmas–lots of cookies and ham and cheese-stuffed potatoes to tempt me. And, I’ll dive i…

12/25/2020

I'm not quite ready for the stirrups here, but enjoying horseback. It’s icy cold and snowing outside. It’s mid-December and promises to be a nostalgic white Christmas full of bright lights and Mariah Carey singing, All I Want for Christmas is You. Christmas, and the year’s end that follows it, is a bittersweet time for me, now that my children are grown and my marriage is over....

I’m not quite ready for the stirrups here, but enjoying horseback. It’s icy cold and snowing outside. It’s mid-December and promises to be a nostalgic white Christmas full of bright lights an…

11/30/2020

Because I've become a fan of plein air writing, I wondered whether I should take my Chromebook along in a backpack to better record my insights and observations. It would be quicker than the pen, and I could always cut and paste anything that turned out well into a larger draft. And, if I used my phone, I could just dictate and let it create the text for me, and I could snap a photograph to better remind me of the setting....

Because I’ve become a fan of plein air writing, I wondered whether I should take my Chromebook along in a backpack to better record my insights and observations. It would be quicker than the …