Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

My Big Ask

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The importance of reviews Friends, if you've read Gordy and the Ghost Crab, my poetry book Sleepwalker, or my novel In the Context of Love, please hop over to Amazon and write a few words in a reader review. I'm not asking you just to feed my ego. Reviews mean EVERYTHING to the algorithm gods. Here is why: In a market where readers have so many choices, the importance of reader reviews … [Read more...]

The Fear is Real

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Shake it up: Here I am in Tucson, Arizona, smiling hugely from way up high. I look giddy with happiness. Truthfully, I was giddy with fear. You can't see how hard I'm shaking. My entire being! With my heart in my throat! I remember entertaining an irrational fear that the wind might blow me off, and a brief concern that my husband or someone else might push me, you know, just for giggles. He'd … [Read more...]

Simple beliefs that hold true

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A journaling exercise When cleaning a deep, dark and very dusty closet recently, I found a little blue notebook that I wrote in when my friend Rebecca Vlasic and I conducted journaling workshops at a women's shelter in Pontiac, sometime around 2000. In the workshop, we discussed the value of keeping a personal journal of goals, aspirations, accomplishments, likes and dislikes, and good … [Read more...]

Adjustments: Do dogs grieve?

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Life without Clementine: I’ve been watching our 3-year old corgi Cowboy carefully since his buddy Clementine traveled over the rainbow bridge on February 8th, 2024. After all, she was there since the first day we brought him home. Now his morning routine has changed. His walk routine changed. Feeding routine, bedtime, playtime.... all changed. I tried not to project my own feelings of loss … [Read more...]

When Words Find You: The Magic of Found Poems

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Crafting a found poem is a wonderful way of transforming ordinary language into something more magical. All it takes is finding text that resonates with you, a little bit of intuition, and the ability to make significant line breaks that slow the reader down and offer impact to the words. Astro-eclipse-ology A Found Poem Because the North Noderepresents the energywe, as a collective, are … [Read more...]