Friday, January 4, 2008
SCROLL DOWN FOR SALLY SIM'S ARTICLE
Please scroll down to the second post to link to Sally Sim's article.
A NEW WORLD!
After all these years, I'm leaving New York City. Along with my ten years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (the 90s) I've lived in NY for a long time.
It's been great, both for my intellectual and spiritual growth as a human being, and for my creativity.
It's time for a change, and the change is to Santa Fe, New Mexico. My wife and I spent five days there in December, and we loved it. When you look up beyond the buildings (none higher than 3 stories!) you see the absolutely beautiful Sangre de Christo mountains. I can't tell you how refreshing to eye and soul to see something not built by real estate developers!
I'll miss ready access to world-class theatre (we saw Pinter's The Homecoming last week, starring Ian McShane (star of HBO's Deadwood) and it was terrific. I'll miss the NY museums, but Santa Fe has some great museums too. It's folk art museum is fabulous, and there's the Georgia O'Keefe museum and several others.
And the planes fly both ways, NY to SF and SF to NY, so we'll return for visits regularly. Already several NY pals are ready to swap digs for a week or so.
My coaching business will not be affected, since it all takes place in cyber-world anyway.
It's been great, both for my intellectual and spiritual growth as a human being, and for my creativity.
It's time for a change, and the change is to Santa Fe, New Mexico. My wife and I spent five days there in December, and we loved it. When you look up beyond the buildings (none higher than 3 stories!) you see the absolutely beautiful Sangre de Christo mountains. I can't tell you how refreshing to eye and soul to see something not built by real estate developers!
I'll miss ready access to world-class theatre (we saw Pinter's The Homecoming last week, starring Ian McShane (star of HBO's Deadwood) and it was terrific. I'll miss the NY museums, but Santa Fe has some great museums too. It's folk art museum is fabulous, and there's the Georgia O'Keefe museum and several others.
And the planes fly both ways, NY to SF and SF to NY, so we'll return for visits regularly. Already several NY pals are ready to swap digs for a week or so.
My coaching business will not be affected, since it all takes place in cyber-world anyway.
SALLY SIMS' FIRST SALE!
To read Sally Sims' excellent personal essay recently published in the Christian Science Monitor please click on http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1220/p18s03-hfes.html And...here is how Sally went from being an unpublished writer to her first sale---and in a prestigious international newspaper, at that!
"Persistence pays off. When I decided to target the Christian Science Monitor to get published, I'd only been paid in contributor's copies for writing I had done. I wanted dearly to break into a paying market, and a national one to boot. …the Monitor celebrates the personal essay. My first submission, a humorous piece about attending an auction, got no response. By the time I wrote the second attempt, a travel piece on Cedar Key, Florida I'd started working with Roy as a writing coach and then took his LifeStory class. Through that spring and summer I could feel my writing getting tauter with Roy's input and, most of all, his unflagging encouragement. When I wrote the Creche essay, I knew I was closing in. I submitted by email and got accepted in under three hours. Roy helped me immensely, not only in developing my writing and editing skills, but in getting to the point where I felt like a writer—which makes me much bolder. Thanks, Roy !"
Sally Sims, January, 2008
"Persistence pays off. When I decided to target the Christian Science Monitor to get published, I'd only been paid in contributor's copies for writing I had done. I wanted dearly to break into a paying market, and a national one to boot. …the Monitor celebrates the personal essay. My first submission, a humorous piece about attending an auction, got no response. By the time I wrote the second attempt, a travel piece on Cedar Key, Florida I'd started working with Roy as a writing coach and then took his LifeStory class. Through that spring and summer I could feel my writing getting tauter with Roy's input and, most of all, his unflagging encouragement. When I wrote the Creche essay, I knew I was closing in. I submitted by email and got accepted in under three hours. Roy helped me immensely, not only in developing my writing and editing skills, but in getting to the point where I felt like a writer—which makes me much bolder. Thanks, Roy !"
Sally Sims, January, 2008