Unanswered Emails
by Carol Henderson Posted in Open to Hope In the poem, “Note,” Ellie Schoenfeld writes that she is still sometimes …
Category Archives: Home
A previous writing, revisited
Sometimes a prompt can take us to very unexpected places, particularly if there are very specific instructions within the prompt. …
Why I Share
Why do I share? October is here again—over half way to November. I want to love this season of change …
Suddenly this Summer by Carol Henderson in Open to Hope
From Open to Hope, see Suddenly this Summer by Carol Henderson. On the evening of July 4th, 2019, I was …
Writing for Resilience
Watch a recent podcast with Heidi Gessner and Carol Henderson on writing toward resilience at Open to Hope. Carol and …
Write with us
Some new reflective writing workshops and sessions have been added to the Writing Workshops page. You may find one that …
Nail Glue, Cigarettes, and Seventy-Two
She would have been 72 years old today. Always a beauty, and for as long as I can remember, consumed …
Blessings
My dear friends, I am thinking of you mightily this Christmas season. There is much to do to prepare for …
Seasons
This post is based on a prompt given at our last writing retreat: “The trees are about to show us …
writer’s block?
Hi Kay, I am writing to you to help me think things out about writing for the blog. This may …
The Trip to the UPS Store
I drove to the UPS store—I know it well—on the corner of Park and Mass Ave in Arlington, Massachusetts, …
Carol Henderson on Open to Hope: Writing Is a Lifeline
Carol Henderson, author of Losing Malcolm: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief and Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen …
Much Obliged
It is a warm August morning in 2000, and I am sitting in the car parked just outside the small …
Astounded
Tomorrow will be March 29. Again, we face another year without seeing who Wes and Andy would have become. I …
Writing for Resilience
This piece is reposted from UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom: Narratives That Are Shared: Writing for Resilience …
When I Turned Thirty
On December 16, 1987 I had reached a milestone: I was only one year shy of having completed three decades …
One step
One step, I reminded my visitors, one step down, one step up. The floor is not level all the way …
What’s in a Number?
1 day-long writing workshop that brought us together. 13 bereaved mothers seeking a way to write ourselves to wholeness. 14 …
Making the Unknown Known
Last week, several of us from the Farther Along writing group met at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in …
Pond
Most summers, we take a family vacation to a sleepy little coastal area of southern Rhode Island, a place where …
