by Carolyn | May 21, 2018 | Vox & Luz |
I want to be five years old again. I want to be this little girl who doesn’t wonder what people think of her. She is a little wild and a wee bit shy. She thinks about things. She ponders. But mainly she follows wherever her imagination might lead her. This little girl...
by Carolyn | May 18, 2018 | Unwritten |
What’s the word for “water taxi” in Italian? The day my friend Maureen and I arrived in Venice by train, this is what puzzled us. We needed to find a water taxi so we go to our pensione. Along the way I launched a publishing career. At this point in our journey,...
by Carolyn | May 16, 2018 | The Flame Keepers, The SoulFire, WHAT'S NEW
The year my father died, my family was shattered. He died suddenly, and to this day decades later, even with an autopsy, we have no satisfactory answer. I was a young writer then, writing short stories with Ron Carlson at Arizona State University and before that with...
by Carolyn | Oct 5, 2017 | The SoulFire, WORKSHOPS & WEBINARS
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by Carolyn | Feb 29, 2016 | WHAT'S NEW, WORKSHOPS & WEBINARS
BOOK PROPOSAL ACCELERATOR Ignite Your Vision for Your Story and Get Your Book Out to the World A course of action from author and story catalyst Carolyn Flynn 10 a.m. to noon MDT Saturday, June 11 Book Proposal Accelerator Ignite Your Vision for Your Story and Get...
by Carolyn | Dec 13, 2015 | Vox & Luz |
Every year, as we approach Winter Solstice, I chase the fugitive. It may seem I am chasing the light, but what I think I’m chasing is the temporal. What I find instead is the eternal. The fugitive is the light, leaving us each day. Today it left at 4:55 p.m. We had 9...
by Carolyn | Dec 13, 2015 | Ms. Persephone
Sitting on a veranda looking out at the Greek harbor as twilight falls all around, her guitar balanced on her knees, Tara takes in the long-unanswered question about her romantic life. It comes to her in a form unadulterated by bitter sorrow of her family’s history in...
by Carolyn | Nov 25, 2015 | MEDIA & EVENTS
Be a media innovator. A new Innovation Academy course at the University of New Mexico promises to help you channel your inner entrepreneur. #MakeMedia_UNM Innovations in Media Entrepreneurship marries up the best of what news media can do with ways to make money doing...
by Carolyn | Sep 4, 2015 | Vox & Luz
First of all, I don’t wear a watch. I wear a FitBit. The value difference is clear. One represents money and power in traditional hierarchical organizations, the ability to climb to the top and slog it out. Your efforts are measured by showing up every day, hauling...
by Carolyn | Jun 21, 2015 | MEDIA & EVENTS
Tell Better Stories, Live a Better Life Here is the script of my TEDxABQ Women 2015 talk, a manifesto of sorts for creative souls. Since the May 28, 2015, talk, I have heard from more than a few people that it was life-changing. That is my aim. If these words mean...