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Worldwide Perspectives Contributors

Below is a list of our current correspondents from around the world. If you’d like to comment on their pieces or otherwise communicate with them, they’d love to hear from you! If you’d like to become a featured correspondent, we’d welcome your contribution.

To find all the con­tri­bu­tions of a given cor­re­spon­dent, please use the site’s search function.

AnnA Rush­ton
Let­ter from Brighton

AnnA Rush­ton is a cre­ative life coach, inspi­ra­tional speaker and the author of per­sonal devel­op­ment books on han­dling stress, pro­cras­ti­na­tion, and writ­ing your life story: www.creativecatalyst.co.uk; anna@creativecatalyst.co.uk.

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Arun Verma
Let­ter from New Delhi

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Bar­bara Hem­ing
Let­ter from the High Desert

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Bar­bara Sin­clair
Let­ter from New York City

Bar­bara Sin­clair is a visual artist, holis­tic health coach and prac­ti­tioner of energy med­i­cine liv­ing in NYC. She works with clients to help them reclaim good health, joy and mean­ing in their lives. You can learn more about her work, read her blog and check out her art: www.barbarasinclair.com; barbara@barbarasinclair.com.

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Bre­cia Kralovic-Logan
Let­ter from Santa Barbara

Bre­cia Kralovic-Logan is a fiber artist, edu­ca­tor and cre­ativ­ity coach who loves to sup­port peo­ple in their pas­sion­ate, nat­ural, orig­i­nal devel­op­ment as indi­vid­u­als.  She is the direc­tor of peb­ble in the pond art stu­dio, in Santa Bar­bara and teaches and exhibits her work inter­na­tion­ally.  For infor­ma­tion about Brecia’s coach­ing pro­grams and fiber work­shops, please visit: www.breciacreative.com.

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Brenda Schweder
Let­ter from His­toric Down­town Waukesha

Brenda Schweder is the author of Steel Wire Jew­elry (Lark Crafts) and Vin­tage Redux and Junk to Jew­elry (Kalm­bach Pub­lish­ing Com­pany). Between her jew­elry designs and Fash­ion Fore­casts, Schweder has been pub­lished over one hun­dred times. Schweder is a designer, illus­tra­tor, author, colum­nist, teacher, and cre­ativ­ity coach to do-it-yourself jew­el­ers and hob­by­ists. Con­tact her at b@BrendaSchweder.com; www.Facebook.com/Brenda.Schweder; www.BrendaSchweder.com.

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C. M Mayo
Let­ter from Mexico

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Camille Minichino
Let­ter from Boston

Camille Minichino, physi­cist turned writer, is the author of short sto­ries, essays, and three mys­tery series: The Peri­odic Table Mys­ter­ies, The Minia­ture Mys­ter­ies (as Mar­garet Grace) and The Pro­fes­sor Sophie Knowles Mys­ter­ies (as Ada Madi­son). You can check out her books, events, and classes at www.minichino.com or e-mail
camille@minichino.com.

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Carla McEl­haney
Let­ter from Austin

Carla McEl­haney is co-founder, pianist and Executive/Artistic Direc­tor for REVEL, an Austin-based “clas­si­cal band,” and pub­lishes a free monthly e-zine for Cre­atives called Pas­sion In Action. For more about REVEL, visit www.revelmusic.org. To sign up to receive Pas­sion In Action, visit www.carlamcelhaney.com. You can drop Carla a line at carla@carlamcelhaney.com.

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Cather­ine Mee­son
Let­ter from Melbourne

Cather­ine Mee­son is a Musician/ com­poser and Sound Heal­ing researcher. She is a  mul­ti­modal­ist and Transper­sonal Cre­ative Arts Ther­a­pist. She trained with Eric’s Cre­ativ­ity coach­ing and is pas­sion­ate about cre­ativ­Ity, the arts, and heal­ing. Read her blog at creativetherapeuticencounters.blogspot.com and con­tact her at catherine.meeson@live.vu.edu.au. Lis­ten at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/revolutioncomplete.

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Chris­tine Col­lis­ter
Let­ter from Isle of Man

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Cindi Myers
Let­ter from the Rocky Mountains

Cindi Myers worked as a news­pa­per reporter, travel agent and med­ical clinic man­ager before turn­ing to writ­ing full time. She’s writ­ten both his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary romance, as well as dozens of short sto­ries and non­fic­tion arti­cles. Cindi thinks writ­ers have the best job in the world She and her hus­band and their two dogs live in the moun­tains South­west of Den­ver. When she’s not caught up in cre­at­ing new char­ac­ters and sto­ries, Cindi enjoys read­ing, quilt­ing, gar­den­ing, ski­ing and hik­ing. She’s also in demand as a speaker, teach­ing work­shops and mak­ing pre­sen­ta­tions to both local and national writ­ing groups.

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Colin W. Prowse
Let­ter from St. Arnac, France

Colin is pas­sion­ate about ratio­nal, sci­en­tific thought. For the past 26 years Colin has been a teacher at Bedales School (motto: intel­li­gence, ini­tia­tive, inde­pen­dence) to which he was attracted par­tic­u­larly due to its non-denominational stance. Colin has trav­eled to more than 40 coun­tries and led field trips to Wales, France, Sicily, Morocco, Namibia and Kenya. He is cur­rently refur­bish­ing a house in Rous­sil­lon as his retire­ment home and likes to spend his Sun­day after­noons as a vol­un­teer rugby foot­ball union referee.

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Cristine Lev­itre
Let­ter from Rowe, Massachusetts

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Darby Dizard
Let­ter from Manhattan

Darby Dizard is a musi­cian, writer and cre­ativ­ity coach. She has per­formed at venues rang­ing from Carnegie Hall to La Fenice and is known to be a lead­ing inter­preter of the vocal works of Duke Elling­ton.  She has recently fin­ished her lat­est Jazz CD, Down For You, which has received great crit­i­cal acclaim.  She has been an Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of music at City Col­lege of New York, received a Meet the Com­poser Grant from New York State Coun­sel on the Arts, and is a five time win­ner of the ASCAP’s Writer’s Award: www.darbydizard.com.

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Dayle Doroshow
Let­ter from Dur­fort, France

Dayle Doroshow is a mixed media artist and owner of design stu­dio Zin­garo, stamp of dis­tinc­tion. She trained in ceram­ics in New York City and sold her pot­tery in Green­wich Vil­lage shops. She con­tin­ued with the study of Book Arts at San Fran­cisco Cen­ter for the Book. Dayle enjoys teach­ing and shar­ing the cre­ative process in work­shops across the United States and in France. Her work and teach­ing cal­en­dar can be seen at www.dayledoroshow.com.

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Deb­bie Hoskins
Let­ter from Grand Rapids

Deb­bie S. Hoskins is a visual jour­naler, artist, musi­cian, and dancer. She works as a Youth Ser­vices Librar­ian for the Grand Rapids Pub­lic Library. She cre­ates and devel­ops spir­i­tu­ally to be at peace. Feel free to respond to writ­ing or art­work at debbiestudio@yahoo.com.

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Denise J. Hart
Let­ter from Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Denise is a Per­form­ing Artist and Cre­ativ­ity Coach. She’s the cre­ator of the The Moti­va­tion Mojo Sys­tem. She thrives on help­ing folks strengthen the nec­es­sary skills to achieve their goals and dreams. She’s avail­able for online coach­ing and you can find loads of great infor­ma­tion on her blog at www.motivationmama.com.

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Eden Maxwell
Let­ter from Santa Fe

Eden Maxwell is a painter and writer. His paint­ings are in pri­vate col­lec­tions world­wide; his art has been exhib­ited on both coasts; and his work has been fea­tured in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing the Ency­clopae­dia Bri­tan­nica.Eden, a best­selling author, writes about his 30-year long odyssey into art and self-discovery in his most recent book—An Artist Empow­ered. Please visit www.edensart.com or e-mail him at artist@edensart.com.

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Edward Neal
Let­ter From Atlanta

Eddie Neal is a soft­ware devel­oper liv­ing in Atlanta, Geor­gia. His pas­sions include travel, art, and lit­er­a­ture. He can be reached at edwardlneal@gmail.com.

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Eva Weaver
Let­ter from Brighton

Eva Weaver is a creativity-and empow­er­ment coach, art ther­a­pist, artist and shamanic coun­selor. She offers retreats and work­shops and indi­vid­ual work with her prac­tice Wild­Wing Cen­tre for Per­sonal Devel­op­ment and Cre­ativ­ity. If you like to learn more about work­ing with Eva, check out her web­site www.wildwing.co.uk or drop her a line at evaweaver@talk21.com.

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Fiona Robyn
Let­ter from Malvern Hills, England

Fiona Robyn is on a mis­sion to help peo­ple con­nect with the world through writ­ing. She does this with her hus­band Kaspa at Writ­ing Our Way Home. She is a nov­el­ist, ther­a­pist, cre­ativ­ity coach, ail­urophile, Bud­dhist, and drinker of earl grey tea. Find out more at www.writingourwayhome.com.

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Geor­gia Hughes
Let­ter from Baja Sonoma

Geor­gia A. Hughes has spent most of her life work­ing with books: as a book­seller, edi­tor, and now edi­to­r­ial direc­tor at New World Library, where she acquires and edits non-fiction books. Oh, and read­ing. She also plays the bas­soon com­pe­tently and writes fic­tion: www.newworldlibrary.com.

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Gre­gory Barker
Let­ter from Wales

Gre­gory A. Barker is the com­mis­sion­ing edi­tor of Voice­Coun­cil Mag­a­zine, the lead­ing on-line resource for con­tem­po­rary singers. He is also a uni­ver­sity lec­turer and author; his lat­est pub­li­ca­tion is Jesus Beyond Chris­tian­ity: The Clas­sic Texts (Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press) Greg can be reached at editor@voicecouncil.com; www.voicecouncil.com.

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Heather Juer­gensen
Let­ter from Los Angeles

Heather Juer­gensen is an actress whose film cred­its includeThe Ham­mer, Red Roses and Petrol and Haunted Man­sion. Also an accom­plished writer, she has writ­ten screen­plays and tele­plays for Mira­max, Warner Bros., ABC, VH-1 and CBS, among oth­ers.  She wrote, pro­duced and starred in the hit indie film Kiss­ing Jes­sica Stein, win­ner of many awards and dis­trib­uted inter­na­tion­ally by Fox Search­light Pic­tures. She is cur­rently focus­ing on rais­ing her 3 year-old daugh­ter Sophie. Sophie, Heather, and her hus­band, com­edy writer Kevin Hench, can often be found nosh­ing and strolling on Larch­mont Boule­vard in L.A.

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Irina Alm­gren
Let­ter from Sweden

In her e-classes and coach­ing ses­sions Irina Alm­gren sup­ports the par­tic­i­pants in find­ing the cre­ative response that helps them become them­selves rather than rein­force the per­son they already are. Irina believes that through cre­ative explo­rations, we can make the com­mu­nity wise, enlight­ened and whole. She can be reached at irina@irinaalmgren.com.

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Jac­kee Holder
Let­ter from London

Jac­kee is a life coach, trainer, writer, inter­faith min­is­ter, pub­lished author, and cre­ativ­ity expert. Jac­kee works nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally with groups and indi­vid­u­als and has helped thou­sands of peo­ple to enrich and trans­form their lives, and achieve extra­or­di­nary results. To learn more about Jackee’s work please visit www.jackeeholder.com.

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Jane Watt
Let­ter from Brittany

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Jen­nifer Pit­tam
Let­ter from Hertfordshire

Jen­nifer Pit­tam is a writer and cre­ativ­ity coach, and the author of two his­tor­i­cal nov­els. You can fol­low Jennifer’s blog on cre­ativ­ity, his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, and the writer’s life at weaversofdreams.blogspot.com or drop her a line at weaversofdreams@btinternet.com.

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Jonathan Her­bert
Let­ter from New York

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Judith Nasse
Let­ter from Taos

Judith Nasse is a fine arts painter, illus­tra­tor and writer of his­tor­i­cal nov­els and children’s pic­ture books.  As a cre­ativ­ity coach she enjoys see­ing her clients’ cre­ativ­ity bloom. See her Cre­ativ­ity Coach­ing blog: judithnasse.blogspot.com. Sign up for her e-mail quar­terly newslet­ter at judith_art@yahoo.com.

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Judithann Walsh Whel­ley
Let­ter from Dayton

Jude lives and writes in Day­ton, Ohio. She is proud of the vibrant arts and cre­ativ­ity cul­ture in Day­ton and is delighted to share it here. She’s eagerly antic­i­pat­ing your responses. You can reach her at whelleyj@aol.com and read her at www.sensuouslysixty.blogspot.com.

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Kathy Holzapfel
Let­ter from Mid­dle Georgia

Kathy Holzapfel writes roman­tic sus­pense. She has pub­lished eight nov­els under the pseu­do­nyms Lau­ren Bach and Cate Noble. She smiles a lot and would love for you to visit her web­site at www.CateNoble.com or drop her a line at Cate@CateNoble.com.

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Katrin Stehle
Let­ter from a Bavar­ian Village

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Ker­stin Heusinger
Let­ter from Berlin

Ker­stin Heusinger is a the­ater edu­ca­tor (trainer/therapist) and direc­tor who is based in Berlin. In 1998 she set up Jalaja -– Die Musis­che Schule (School of Muses) in Hanover, a pri­vate school with the aim of sup­port­ing children’s cre­ative minds. In 2005 she directed an opera project with 100 chil­dren on stage, which was cho­sen as win­ner in the sec­tion musi­cal the­ater in a national com­pe­ti­tion. Fur­ther­more, Ker­stin Heusinger coaches artists in their pro­fes­sional and per­sonal aims. You may reach Ker­stin Heusinger at kerstin.heusinger@googlemail.com. To learn more about her school please visit www.die-musische-schule.com.

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Ker­stin Vikner
Let­ter from Torna Hallestad, Swe­den
Let­ter from Copenhagen

Ker­stin Vikner lives in south­ern Swe­den. She is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor in his­tory, and has pub­lished works on social struc­ture and state­for­ma­tion in Early Mod­ern Europe. She is now writ­ing a bio­graph­i­cal study of two women who met in Havana in 1851. She is engaged in the Swedish UN-association and gives lec­tures about Dag Ham­marskjöld. She is also active musi­cian and plays flute, sax­o­fon and vio­lin in dif­fer­ent bands. Con­tact her at kerstin.vikner@gmail.com or visit her pub­lish­ing web­site at www.viknerforlag.com.

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Kiki McGrath
Let­ter from Rome

Kiki McGrath is a painter liv­ing in Rome, Italy. She is inter­ested in the inter­sec­tion of art and faith, and can be reached at kikimcgrath@hotmail.com.

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Kris Reichart-Anderson
Let­ter from Del Rio, Texas

Kris Reichart-Anderson is a cer­ti­fied cre­ativ­ity coach, artist and writer liv­ing in Del Rio, Texas. Fol­low Kris on her blog leapingnet.blogspot.com or con­tact her at kris.reichartanderson@gmail.com.

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Larry Feign
Let­ter from Hong Kong

Larry Feign is an American-born writer and car­toon­ist whose work has appeared in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions around the world. He is the author of 15 books of car­toons and essays and one flip book. Larry lives in a remote vil­lage on an island in the South China Sea west of Hong Kong, where he is cur­rently work­ing on two nov­els. His mother hopes that one day he’ll grow up and become a doc­tor. See his work online at www.humorist.net.

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Leilani Squire
Let­ter from Hollywood

Leilani Squire is a screen­writer (her sec­ond screen­play was optioned for its edgy sub­ject mat­ter), screen­play con­sul­tant and pub­lished poet. She is a juror for the pres­ti­gious HUMANITAS Prize and facil­i­tates a cre­ative writ­ing work­shop at the West Los Ange­les Vet­er­ans Admin­is­tra­tion. She pro­duces “Return­ing Sol­diers Speak” where vet­er­ans from dif­fer­ent wars and con­flicts read their poetry and prose. To learn more about Leilani’s screen­writ­ing con­sult­ing ser­vices, drop her a line at leilanisquire@sbcglobal.net.

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Les­ley Riley
Let­ter from Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

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Linda Gilbert
Let­ter from Welling­ton, New Zealand

Linda Gilbert is a con­tem­po­rary multi-media artist. For Linda art is about ideas and cur­rently she is play­ing with print­mak­ing and encaus­tics (using hot wax for paint­ing and sculp­ture). Linda’s works are set within cul­tural nar­ra­tives that often ref­er­ence human rights or con­ser­va­tion themes. Linda has held sev­eral solo exhi­bi­tions and par­tic­i­pated in many group shows in gal­leries all over New Zealand and she some­times accepts com­mis­sions. Linda is based on the Kapiti Coast in Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can con­tact her at Linda.g@xtra.co.nz and check out some of her art at www.lindagilbert.co.nz.

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Linda Scott
Let­ter from Vul­ture Creek Vineyards

I am a crazed artist and grape farmer on Sonoma Moun­tain, hold­ing tightly to a diverse, eccen­tric lifestyle. Schiz­o­phrenic with only the best con­no­ta­tions. The bald pink lioness seek­ing silence in flocks of black crows, I am. Wisps of apri­cot fog tinged in sun­set rays bring nature’s solace. As the moon sets to one lone coyote’s cry, I lay down my paint­brush. Call me linda never ma’am. Find me at vulturepeakmuse.blogspot.com and soon Let­ter from Vul­ture Peak Vineyard.

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Lisa Pijuan-Nomura
Let­ter from Toronto

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Lorne Resnick
Let­ter from Havana

Lorne Resnick is an Award win­ning Fine Art and Com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­pher who teaches travel pho­tog­ra­phy work­shops around the world — from Cuba, to Africa to Death Val­ley and beyond. Equally com­fort­able shoot­ing in a stu­dio in Los Ange­les, hik­ing to the top of Mt. Kil­i­man­jaro or explor­ing the giant sand dunes of the Sahara Desert, his pas­sion for travel and pho­tog­ra­phy keeps him mov­ing around the globe explor­ing dif­fer­ent cul­tures and coun­tries, cap­tur­ing com­pelling moments. You can see his work­shop sched­ule at lorneresnick.com/workshops/index.html and reach him at lorne@lorneresnick.com.

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Lynn Skin­ner
Let­ter from Denver

Lynn Skin­ner is a vocal­ist, com­poser, writer, voice coach, men­tor, and record­ing artist. Please visit Lynn’s web­site at www.lynnskinner.com. Lynn’s record­ings can be heard and pur­chased at www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LynnSkinner. She would love to receive an e-mail from you at lynnie@lynnskinner.com.

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Mag­gie Kolkena
Let­ter from Portland

A for­mer actress and chore­o­g­ra­pher, Mag­gie Kolkena melds her cre­ative back­ground with a M.S. in Orga­ni­za­tional Devel­op­ment to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tive cre­ativ­ity within orga­ni­za­tions, teams, and indi­vid­u­als in lead­er­ship roles. Mag­gie writes a pop­u­lar newslet­ter and blog at www.thirdthought.com. You can write to her at maggie@thirdthought.com.

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Mar­tine Van­re­moortele
Let­ter from Antwerp

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Mary Sul­li­van Hold­grafer
Let­ter from Edmonton

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Metece Ric­cio Raynor
Let­ter from the Old Pueblo

Metece Ric­cio Raynor is a writer, licensed Mar­riage & Fam­ily Ther­a­pist and the chief choco­holic at SmartRelationshipsForWomen.com. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a large, bois­ter­ous Italian-Irish fam­ily and comes from a long line of scrap­pers, sausage-makers and dream­ers. White Cas­tle Ham­burg­ers are her weak­ness. And she makes a wicked triple choco­late bis­cotti. As a writer, she spe­cial­izes in no-b.s. spir­i­tu­al­ity, rela­tion­ship repair and heart-and-soul healing.

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Myra Binns Bridg­forth
Let­ter from Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Myra Bridg­forth is a psy­chother­a­pist and a poet.  She co-leads twice yearly Silent Retreats and Poets & Writ­ers & Artists Retreats at a moun­tain retreat cen­ter in Lost River, West Vir­ginia. If you would like to learn more about Myra’s psy­chother­apy and con­sult­ing ser­vices visit www.MyraBridgforth.com. To learn about upcom­ing retreats or to respond to her columns, please drop her a line at MyraLPC@verizon.net.

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Nancy Fletcher Cas­sell
Let­ter from Kentucky

Nancy Fletcher Cas­sell resides in North­ern Ken­tucky and Ten­nessee and has received grants in visual art from The Ken­tucky Arts Coun­cil, The South­ern Arts Federation/NEA Regional Fel­low­ship Pro­gram, The Ken­tucky Foun­da­tion for Women and Art Mat­ters. Her poems have been pub­lished in the Water-Stone Review, Still: the Jour­nal and in Greater Cincin­nati Poets and Writ­ers for Peace and Jus­tice. Visit her web­site at www.nancyfletchercassell.com.

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Nancy Nichols
Let­ter from West San Fran­cisco, California

Nancy Nichols has lived and worked in San Anselmo, Cal­i­for­nia for 25 years. My back­ground expe­ri­ence in Fine Art and years of train­ing in Graphic Design have given me valu­able visual insight that I apply to my Free­lance Cyber­space Work. I enjoy the daily adven­ture of find­ing new ways to look at the same old thing. It is my belief that a cre­ative eye can make just about any­thing artis­tic: www.nancynichols.com.

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Nathalie Sze­jner Sigal
Let­ter from Buenos Aires

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Pamela Yates
Let­ter from Mis­sis­sippi River, St. Paul

Pamela Yates is a painter and artist with a port­fo­lio at Foot­prints Fine Arts. Pamela Yates main­tains a holis­tic cre­ativ­ity and mean­ing coach­ing prac­tice at Cir­cle Path­ways and cur­rently has open­ings for new clients. If you’d like to learn more about work­ing with Pamela, con­tact her at pamela@circlepathways.com. To learn more about her ser­vices please visit www.circlepathways.com. She’d love to hear your thoughts on her columns — please drop her an email.

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Pan Mori­gan
Let­ter from the Con­necti­cut River Valley

Pan Mori­gan, a dual cit­i­zen of the U.S. and Canada, is an award-wining song­writer, vocal­ist, and multi-instrumentalist. Her new album of orig­i­nal, genre-defying songs is called Wild Blue & mixes the musi­cal influ­ences of Pan’s child­hood; Jazz, Blues, & Irish, North Amer­i­can, & Greek folk sounds. She’s music direc­tor of Chrysalis the­ater, and teaches Voice for The­ater at Smith Col­lege: www.panmorigan.com.

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Petra Tool
Let­ter from Amsterdam

Petra Tool is a Dutch por­trait artist, cre­ativ­ity coach and author of “Jazz and Soul, tal­ent in word and paint.” She’s spe­cial­ized in por­tray­ing tal­ented cre­ative peo­ple in water­color. Her muses are mostly dancers and musi­cians. You can learn more about Petra by vis­it­ing her web­site at www.petratool.nl (page in Eng­lish). For any ques­tions or com­ments, you can con­tact Petra at info@petratool.nl.

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Phyl­lis Lane
Let­ter from Phoenix

Phyl­lis Lane is a pho­tog­ra­pher, film­maker, artist, musi­cian, entre­pre­neur and intu­itive healer. You can learn more about her cre­ativ­ity, men­tor­ing, and soul ses­sions on her blog at www.phyllisophy.com; www.phyllislane.com.

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Rebecca Wal­lace
Let­ter from Down­ing Creek

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Robert Ressler
Let­ter from San Francisco

Robert Ressler is an evo­lu­tion­ary psy­chol­o­gist and cre­ativ­ity coach with post­doc­toral train­ing in psy­chother­apy, an empathic nature, broad inter­ests, deep focus, and a New York sense of humor. Also an essay­ist and singer-songwriter, he’s pro­duced a show, a CD of songs, and is work­ing on a book that exposes the bib­li­cal story of Adam and Eve as the patri­ar­chal reli­gious appro­pri­a­tion of an ancient women’s myth lament­ing the dawn of patri­ar­chal civ­i­liza­tion. Visit www.CreativitySupport.com.

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Robin Rezende
Let­ter from Belfast

Robin Rezende is a self-taught visual artist who is cur­rently won­der­ing if there is such a thing as a self-taught writer. Hav­ing suc­cess­fully laboured through Mrs. Gray’s third grade Eng­lish class, should the acco­lades really go to Robin, or to Mrs. Gray? With her first mem­oir par­tially com­pleted, Robin is hop­ing Mrs. Gray actu­ally knew a thing or two about syn­tax. If Mrs. Gray is out there, Robin can be reached at robin.rezende@googlemail.com.

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Roc­cie Hill
Let­ter from Palm Springs

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Ruth Yashar­pour
Let­ter from Los Angeles

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S. J. Hodges
Let­ter from Los Angeles

SJ Hodges writes for the stage, tv, screen and print. She can be con­tacted via Face­book at The Con­stant Cre­ator and fol­lowed on Twit­ter @constantcreator.

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San­dra M. Brown
Let­ter from Ottawa

San­dra M. Brown writes poems, short sto­ries, takes pho­tographs, sketches and paints.  Start­ing as a young child at 10 with a cam­era in her hand to early teens writ­ing poems and sketch­ing to many years later, the present, dab­bling in acrylic paint­ing. She has not gone to any accred­ited art schools but has used her daily life expe­ri­ences to lit­er­ally draw upon, to express her cre­ativ­ity. Her mes­sage is sim­ple, to stop cre­at­ing is to stop breathing!

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Sandy Nel­son
Let­ter from Minneapolis

Sandy Nel­son is an artist, author and cre­ativ­ity coach with cur­rent open­ings in her tele­phone and email coach­ing prac­tice. If you’d like to learn more about work­ing with Coach Sandy, please con­tact her at sandy@meetyourmuse.com. To learn more about her ser­vices please visit www.meetyourmuse.com.

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Scott Malyszka
Let­ter from Virginia

Scott Malyszka is a cre­ativ­ity coach, song­writer, and fid­dler from Reston, VA. Find out more about his classes, coach­ing ser­vices, and music at www.newtrailcoaching.com.

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Steve Harper
Let­ter from Los Angeles

Steve Harper is an award-winning actor, pro­ducer and writer whose work has been seen and per­formed across the coun­try. A grad­u­ate of Yale, The A.R.T. Insti­tute at Har­vard and the Juil­liard play­writ­ing pro­gram, Steve stud­ied coach­ing with the Cre­ativ­ity Coach­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. He is ded­i­cated to help­ing cre­ative peo­ple design sus­tain­able lives. Con­tact him at coachsteve@yourcreativelife.net and take the cre­ative strat­egy quiz at www.yourcreativelife.com.

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Sun­day Lar­son
Let­ter from Sedona

From inspi­ra­tion to man­i­fes­ta­tion, Sun­day Larson’s path has been illu­mi­nated by the light of the Muse. She heeded the inner divine spirit who said, “Dance, Design jew­elry, Cre­ate Art from Earth, Write Sto­ries for me.” Sun­day authored The Spin­ning Game, a novel. She founded The Sedona Salon of Cre­ativ­ity Inquiry, ded­i­cated to hold­ing the lamp of the Muse as she mends the tapes­try of a frayed and tat­tered world. Muse Ris­ing Sedona retreats: www.SedonaSunday.com.

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Susan Gallacher-Turner
Let­ter from Portland

Susan Gallacher-Turner cre­ates mixed media masks, sculp­tures and gar­den art fea­tured in exhibits, gal­leries and pub­li­ca­tions. She writes arti­cles, inter­views, and mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als and teaches a vari­ety of art and writ­ing classes for chil­dren and adults.  She shares her pas­sion and cre­ativ­ity on her blogs sculptingalife.blogspot.com and voicesoflivingcreatively.blogspot.com. She’d love to hear your com­ments on art and life at susangt50@gmail.com. Her web­site is www.susangt.com.

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Susan Stet­son
Let­ter from New Cas­tle, New Hampshire

An artist, Susan pri­mar­ily paints the nat­ural envi­ron­ment and wildlife in a con­tem­po­rary real­ist style. In addi­tion to coastal New Hamp­shire, she has painted on Mon­hegan Island, Coastal Maine, Cape Cod and the North­east­ern Coast of Mass­a­chu­setts as well as Ire­land, Paris and Provence France. She exhibits at the Kennedy Gallery and at var­i­ous juried exhi­bi­tions at the 100 Mar­ket Street Gallery both in Portsmouth, NH. Susan has a Bach­e­lor of Arts in Stu­dio Arts with a con­cen­tra­tion in painting.

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Tamara Hol­land
Let­ter from Whid­bey Island

Jill-of-all-trades Tamara Hol­land is a writer, death penalty attor­ney, Cross­Fit Mas­ters ath­lete, social media nut, and owner/artist at beanupthenoseart.com. She’d love to hear from you at tamara@beanupthenoseart.com or on Twit­ter @tamholland.

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Trudy A. Har­rold
Let­ter from Alberta

Pro­file to come

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Twyla Smith
Let­ter from Santa Fe

Pro­file to come

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Veg­ard Has­sel­berg
Let­ter from Mexico

Pro­file to come

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Vivian Nes­bitt
Let­ter from Albuquerque

Pro­file to come

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Vivien McK­night
Let­ter from Spain

Vivien McK­night is a cre­ativ­ity devel­op­ment coach. She works with peo­ple who want to dis­cover and develop their cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties and then use this knowl­edge to build a sat­is­fy­ing and reward­ing life for them­selves. If you would like to know more about Vivien and the work she does, please get in touch with her at vivienmcknight@gmail.com or visit her web­site www.vivienmcknight.com.

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Zaaron Crosby
Let­ter from West­ern Australia

Zaaron Crosby, a visual artist inter­ested in paint­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, sculp­ture and mixed medium, has spent the past 15 years Career Coach­ing within the recruit­ment indus­try. He iis owner and direc­tor of the online art gallery, Art­less Impact, pre­sent­ing sus­tain­able, eco­log­i­cally sound, fair trade art­works. Trained as a Cre­ativ­ity Coach, Zaaron runs the Cre­ativ­ity Coach­ing Prac­tice and is pas­sion­ate about work­ing with cre­ative indi­vid­u­als, the cre­ative process, and artists with day jobs or non-art careers who still wish to pur­sue a pro­duc­tive cre­ative life: zaaron@thinkfeeldream.com.au; www.thinkfeeldream.au; creativitycoaching-thinkfeeldream.blogspot.com; www.artlessimpact.com.au.