by Deonne Kahler | Mar 8, 2018 | Follow Your Bliss
Ever since I was young I’ve admired Georgia O’Keeffe. Not just her gorgeous and groundbreaking work, but her attitude and lifestyle. Her intense creativity, how for years she split her time between New York and New Mexico, how she never let a relationship define or...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 1, 2018 | Follow Your Bliss
When I finished my MFA in New York in 2010, I was at a crossroads. I could stay in New York, in my tiny Upper East Side apartment, and continue teaching creative writing and working at the Feminist Press. I wouldn’t make a ton of money but I could pay my bills, and...
by Deonne Kahler | Feb 22, 2018 | Follow Your Bliss
It’s so easy to lose your way. It might not even be anything big that causes it, maybe you just get caught up in life’s details – paying bills, managing responsibilities – and all you’re doing is keeping your head down and muddling through. You’re not...
by Deonne Kahler | Feb 15, 2018 | Follow Your Bliss
The thing about the beach is that everyone wants to be here, even folks who don’t have the means to rent an apartment, much less own a house. It’s beautiful, sure, but it’s expensive and out of reach for most. On the path to Dog Beach someone had set up camp in the...
by Deonne Kahler | Feb 8, 2018 | Travel
One of the best things about travel is it puts you in new places and situations, practically forcing you to expand your mind and worldview. Which, in the case of my experience at Glasgow Cathedral, was so mind-expanding it took me a year and a half to write about it....
