by Deborah Bayer | Apr 11, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023, Poems, Poems (2004 - 2015)
(An excerpt from my memoir-in-progress) The Hospice Medical Director role gave me an excuse to bring poetry into my work as a physician. I selected a poem to begin every weekly meeting, sometimes one of my own. One day I read a poem by Mark Doty, “The Embrace,”...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 10, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023
Long Term Benefits How has writing a memoir helped me heal? First, I’ve been able to turn my former self into a protagonist in a story, a flawed but hopefully likable character. I can empathize with her. I can slap my forehead and say Doh! Why is she...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 8, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023
Congratulations! You found some writing time in your busy day. How do you move into writing mode? How do you call in the muse? Some of the things I’ve written about in the A-to-Z posts help. A writing group (as in AWA) can give you Accountability. If you put...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 7, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023
Once, I did a freewrite at my local library, filling three pages in my notebook. Most of what I wrote I threw away, but at the bottom of the third page, I wrote about a white noise machine in my clinic. I recognized a spark there, some kind of juice that I...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 6, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023
Several song snippets go through my head as I ponder E words: Each, Every, Ether, Equanimity, Emotions, Earworm. “Each moment is different from any before it. Each moment is different. It’s now.” That comes from an Incredible String Band song, a British...
by Deborah Bayer | Apr 5, 2023 | A to Z Challenge 2023
And for Darjeeling, because I drink a cup of tea every day when I transition into my afternoon writing time. And Differential, as in the infinitesimally small change described in calculus, dx/dt, a moment so small that it might be described as a snapshot in...
