Dear Reader: Writing Life Beyond the Page

It's been awhile since we've chatted and lots have been going on behind the scenes. We are on Substack now and I'm inviting you there! I explain it all here in this really short episode.

And we are back for Season Two of Dear Reader! 

This season we are exploring such words as empathy, manifest, grief, joy, and breathless. Come listen every week as we talk with writers and thinkers about this and so much more. 

What is empathy an... more

Exhaustion.

With the chaos of the world and with the impact on people of color, specifically Black people, writer and host Icess Fernandez Rojas talks about exhaustion, writing as activism, and living as an Afro-Latinx during this time. 

If you l... more

It's the end of the year and you're probably looking back thinking that you HAVE to do better next year. But do you know how to do that? 

For the past couple of years, the guiding word(s) technique has gathered popularity. That's when you choose on... more

Have you ever taken a risk? Hopefully, there's a yes to that question, however, for some taking a risk is too much to handle. In the world of mental health and writing, risks can happen daily. In this episode, writer and editor Angelique Imani Rodrig... more

The holidays are here and soon we'll be attending events that may put us out of our comfort zones.  It's difficult to establish boundaries when you're trying to join in the merriment but how about in your everyday life?  How does one establish bounda... more

When someone says retrograde, do you think Mercury? Of course, you do, however, retrograde also means the feeling of moving backward. We have all felt that one time or another.  

In this episode, we'll talk about the feeling of moving backward or s... more

Welcome to Dear Reader: Mental Health and the Writing Life where we take one word and explore. Our guiding word for this episode is "Pause". Writer and educator Hugo Esteban Rodriguez stops by to talk about what it means to pause. As a person living ... more