If you have consciously or serendipitiously arrived here, welcome. I’m Fran, aka Redondowriter, and my interests include family, friends, writing, reading, art, computers, storytelling, spirituality, photography, animals—and exploring the layers of everyday life.
Jonathan Young Continuing education in California and Arizona with Jonathan Young, Ph.D., the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives.
Sisters on Sojourn I like to visit this site which I actually linked to from the Artella site.
Myth*ing Link An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythology, Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Focusing Method Developed by Eugene Gendlin in the 1970s, I have had limited exposure to focusing techniques but found them to be very powerful tools for centering and writing.
Artella Words and Art A very interesting site hosted by Marnie Makridakis that I first read about in Somerset Studio.
Spiritual Directors International A professional organization for those involved in spiritual direction--featuring an annual conference and an asbsolutely wonderful quarterly magazine.
Tristine Rainer The first book I ever read about journal keeping was Tristine's "New Diary," and I greatly admire her work at USC and the Center for Autobiographic Studies.
Center for Spirituality Located on the La Casa de Maria property in Montecito, this spiritual center and the women who run it have played a key role in who I am today.
Kay Adams Kay Adams in Denver, Colorado is one of the finest teachers and trainers of journal keeping, poetry and bibliotherapy that I know.
Seena Frost's Soul Collage I ran across Seena's book several months ago and find her process of creating personal collage cards extremely rewarding and insightful.
Dialogue House Intensive Journal The New York City headquarters of Ira Progoff's National Intensive Journal whose method I have taught and used since the early 1980s.