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Taking Warrior Mother on the Road

by Sheila Collins | Oct 22, 2013 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Dances, Grieving, Improvisation, Personal Stories, Play, Story-telling

“How’s your new book doing?” people ask, and I don’t know quite what to say. The official reviews have been wonderful, most of them thoughtful and articulate, better than I could have hoped for. I have felt blessed by such intelligent and crafted responses as...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Is The Story True?

by Sheila Collins | Mar 1, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories, Writing

In a recent column, Maureen Dowd raised the question, “Why can’t filmmakers tell the story as it actually was?” Lamenting the creative license taken in Oscar nominated films, she objected to the fabricated car chase in Argo, done for dramatic effect, and the...

The Path of a Warrior Mother

by Sheila Collins | Jan 29, 2013 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Personal Stories, Writing

In looking at images for the cover of my book, Warrior Mother, I discovered early on that pictures of a skinny woman, dressed in battle gear, brandishing a sword were totally irrelevant. I found in Native American folklore, references to the path of the spiritual...

Finding That Energy Again

by Sheila Collins | Dec 2, 2012 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories

We hadn’t known one another for very long at the time. Perhaps that’s why we took an entire sunny spring afternoon to be together. We walked in a park built around a small man made lake. In those days the park rented small sailboats, paddle boats, and canoes, but not...

Pilgrim

by Sheila Collins | Dec 4, 2011 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories

I was a pilgrim once, like religious devotees who have traveled over the centuries to sacred sites in search of healing. Rather than to the Holy Land, or to Lourdes, I journeyed to Brazil to meet the man known as, John of God. Learning about him from friends and...

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