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Farther Along writers head to Red Cloud, Nebraska

September 9, 2021

Notes on the way to Red Cloud “I seem fated to send people on journeys,” Willa Cather wrote. Since 2002 …

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Remembering Scharme Shown

July 14, 2020

It is with heavy and torn hearts that the Farther Along writing group mothers, who have been together since October …

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Pandemic: A Personal View

April 5, 2020

  I have had pandemic on my mind since last April. I can assure you that I am not a …

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Writing in Company: Why Writing Matters Right Now

March 23, 2020

Farther Along is reposting a post and prompt from Julie Hester’s Writing in Company blog. See more posts HERE. Why …

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Unanswered Emails

December 8, 2019

by Carol Henderson Posted in Open to Hope In the poem, “Note,” Ellie Schoenfeld writes that she is still sometimes …

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A previous writing, revisited

November 14, 2019

Sometimes a prompt can take us to very unexpected places, particularly if there are very specific instructions within the prompt. …

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Why I Share

October 23, 2019

Why do I share?  October is here again—over half way to November.  I want to love this season of change …

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Suddenly this Summer by Carol Henderson in Open to Hope

August 27, 2019

From Open to Hope, see Suddenly this Summer by Carol Henderson. On the evening of July 4th, 2019, I was …

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Writing for Resilience

May 31, 2019

Watch a recent podcast with Heidi Gessner and Carol Henderson on writing toward resilience at Open to Hope. Carol and …

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Write with us

February 2, 2019

Some new reflective writing workshops and sessions have been added to the Writing Workshops page. You may find one that …

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Nail Glue, Cigarettes, and Seventy-Two

January 10, 2019

She would have been 72 years old today. Always a beauty, and for as long as I can remember, consumed …

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Blessings

December 18, 2018

My dear friends, I am thinking of you mightily this Christmas season. There is much to do to prepare for …

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Seasons

November 19, 2018

This post is based on a prompt given at our last writing retreat: “The trees are about to show us …

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writer’s block?

October 21, 2018

Hi Kay, I am writing to you to help me think things out about writing for the blog. This may …

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The Trip to the UPS Store

October 16, 2018

  I drove to the UPS store—I know it well—on the corner of Park and Mass Ave in Arlington, Massachusetts, …

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Carol Henderson on Open to Hope: Writing Is a Lifeline

August 2, 2018

  Carol Henderson, author of Losing Malcolm: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief and Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen …

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Much Obliged

June 16, 2018

It is a warm August morning in 2000, and I am sitting in the car parked just outside the small …

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Astounded

March 28, 2018

Tomorrow will be March 29. Again, we face another year without seeing who Wes and Andy would have become. I …

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Writing for Resilience

March 3, 2018

This piece is reposted from UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom: Narratives That Are Shared: Writing for Resilience …

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When I Turned Thirty

October 14, 2017

On December 16, 1987 I had reached a milestone: I was only one year shy of having completed three decades …

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