by Diane Hatz | May 12, 2023 | Indie Writing & Publishing
First, apologies for my slight absence. I went on a road trip to Moab, Sedona, San Diego (for a writer’s conference), and Tucson – then back to Santa Fe. 2700 miles in two weeks – and I loved it! I didn’t even look at the news while I was away...
by Diane Hatz | Apr 25, 2023 | Musings
(Image by stock_colors from Getty Images Signature for Canva Pro) I guess I can admit it now. I was broken and bitter when I left New York two and a half years ago. I’d been in the throes of menopause but didn’t know it for many years. Perimenopause, to...
by Diane Hatz | Apr 13, 2023 | Misc
(Photo by cristianl for Getty Images Signature in Canva Pro) The biggest influence in my life is His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama. I first saw him at a teaching in Washington, DC, in 1998. I walked into the venue angry and closed off. I left transformed. I had such a...
by Diane Hatz | Mar 28, 2023 | Newsletters
(Photo by Janine Lamontagne from Getty Images Signature for Canva Pro) Diane Discovers – A Path to Peace I read Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now years ago (see Diane Reads below). And I’ve recently started watching some of his videos on YouTube....
by Diane Hatz | Mar 22, 2023 | Musings
I’m a little late to the pandemic, but I’m currently recovering from a nasty bout of covid. It’s been over two weeks since I started feeling ill, and I’ll admit, about five days were scary and beyond exhausting. But I’m on the mend. Still...
by Diane Hatz | Mar 7, 2023 | Musings
Bruce Springsteen (© benhoudijk for Deposit Photos) December 1980. I was 19 years old, at university, and writing a philosophy term paper. My father phoned in the middle of his football game to tell me that John Lennon had just been shot. He died not long after. My...
by Diane Hatz | Feb 22, 2023 | Indie Writing & Publishing
Image by Tolimir for Canva Pro Argh. I did it again. I started last week’s piece intending to discuss my feelings around AI and how complicated technology has gotten, and I ended up writing a term paper on writing groups. Why am I doing this? I feel like I’ve turned...
by Diane Hatz | Feb 16, 2023 | Indie Writing & Publishing
Photo by Extreme-Photographer for Canva Pro Right now, I’m sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. The drive here was a glorious eye-feast of post-storm snow beauty and a feels-like temperature of zero. What would get me out in such cold...
by Diane Hatz | Feb 8, 2023 | Misc
Helloooooo from New Mexico I’m overwhelmed. Do you ever feel like the world is coming down around you? That you have so much work to do that you feel dizzy thinking about it? That’s where I’m at right now. I’m at a point where I can’t even look at my To Do list....
by Diane Hatz | Jan 24, 2023 | Indie Writing & Publishing
(Image by yulkapopkova for Canva Pro) This morning, I was at my desk drafting my weekly article. The subject doesn’t matter, but it was on sensitivity readers, the pros and cons – and controversy – of hiring one. I’ll probably write the piece...
