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On holding, and being held.
Sometimes we don’t see a question coming.
A few weeks ago, I was visiting my friend Linda, who I’ve written about here before. She has memory loss, and one evening at dinner she turned to me, eyebrows raised, and said…
We turned 20, and we’re throwing a birthday party.
Somehow, Firefly just turned 20.
I feel like the parent of a toddler who suddenly grabbed the car keys from the kitchen counter and pulled out of the parking spot with a perfect 3-point turn.
Writing Our Way Back to Each Other — a PWYC writing session next week
Here’s something I never say out loud:
While I love being connected to others, and I crave community in all its forms… I also avoid it, resist it, and will almost always choose a quiet evening alone above anything else.
Spring Writing Workshops + renegotiating my relationship to the news
Last week I deleted the news apps on my phone and promptly had an existential crisis.
What if I miss something?
Right now. Where is the poem right now.
The other day I was on FaceTime with my dear friends, Linda and Gary.
I call them my godparents. Linda has advanced memory loss and struggles to follow conversations now, so it was mostly Gary and I chatting. I was missing her voice.
Massive welcome to our new team member!
It. Is. Time!
As you may know, we spent the last year preparing for a huge leap — to hire our first Operations Lead.
Let’s make something out of nothing. (Free workshop on Friday!)
What does it really mean to make things?
The strange and complicated pull of New Year’s Resolutions.
I have Covid. I’m writing to you from my sofa at 3:14am, surrounded in Kleenex. I look like a 100-year-old snapping turtle.
My brain hurts.
Lately my brain feels like an abandoned car, quietly rusting in a field off the side of a highway.
Small tasks feel epic. Afternoons fill with thick mental fogs…
Who Am I To Do This? — a note from Sophia
This fall I ran the first ever “Fat Joy” writing workshop.
How to say goodbye — a note from Ailsa
Dear Fireflies,
I’m here to say goodbye. And it’s so hard to do.
This is like one of those surreal…
Writing While the World is on Fire
I used to run a workshop called “Writing While the World is on Fire.”
The idea was to bring together people who were working for a better world…
I’m a shitty writer, and other things I learned in school.
Growing up, I hated writing.
I couldn’t spell. I didn’t have ideas. I didn’t believe that anything interesting might happen on the page.
Open Mic Night and all the feels — a note from Mari, Kim, and Asifa
Hello Bright Hearts!
Asifa, Kim, and Mari here...
Kim on turning 50, and actually getting some writing done.
Hi hi! Kim here, one of the writing coaches at Firefly.
There is this thing that happens to me every September.
We are expanding our sweet little team.
Fall is in the air, and we’re taking a big breath and stepping into a change.
Structure vs Self-Trust — what do you *actually* need?
Here’s something we hear a lot at Firefly — “My writing needs structure.”
Let’s be awkward together.
Sometimes I think I’ve forgotten how to belong.
By “belong," I mean — to walk into a room of people and feel basically okay, without performing, or hiding, or trying to be perfect.