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 | 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 | 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 | May 20, 2015 | Vox & Luz |
Pitch & Synopsis: Searching for Persephone Set in the Greek islands and post-Katrina New Orleans, Searching for Persephone is a contemporary twist to the Greek myth about mothers and daughters, grief and passion. Some readers have characterized the novel as The...
by Carolyn | Dec 21, 2014 | Vox & Luz
The dark of December and the Winter Solstice are an invitation, not a death sentence, though it has taken me many birthdays to realize this. In the sparkling LED-lighted frenzy of the holidays, amid our habits of hyperconnectedness and the avalanche of dopamine-fix...
by Carolyn | Aug 17, 2014 | Vox & Luz
THE SOULFIRE WAY: YOUR PATH TO AN AUTHENTIC, RAPTUROUS CREATIVE LIFE Why this book, why now? Five words: Disruption. Renaissance. Divergence. Relevance. Yearning. In December 2013, I started writing a new book for writers, artists, filmmakers, poets, dancers,...