Mistakes Happen!
Author Sophfronia Scott on having compassion for yourself when your efforts fall a little bit short.
Avoiding Overwhelm
Author Sophfronia Scott reflects on how overwhelm doesn't have to be a way of life.
Running Toward the Positive
Author Sophfronia Scott on positive and negative incentives. What motivates you, the “carrot” or the “stick”?
A Way to Hope
Author Sophfronia Scott on the difference between hope being somewhere off in a vague future, and hope being in a very powerful present moment.
The Joy of a Child
Author Sophfronia Scott on how what you loved when you were little can guide your creative life now, and even bring back a lost sense of self.
From Rest, What Dreams May Come
Author Sophfronia Scott on how taking time off may be the most ambitious thing you can do for your work.
The Seeker and the Monk Wins a Louie Award
Sophfronia Scott's book receives special recognition from the International Thomas Merton Society.
Bravery Required
Author Sophfronia Scott reports from the Alma College MFA in Creative Writing summer residency on how writers—and everyone else—can step into the unknown of post-lockdown in this pandemic world.
The Weight of Expectations
Author Sophfronia Scott managing the huge expectations that can come from big projects like a book or the start of the Alma College MFA in Creative Writing program.
National Catholic Reporter Publishes Excerpt from The Seeker and the Monk
Author Sophfronia Scott on nature, Thomas Merton, and transcendence.