April Bosshard 12/21/25 April Bosshard 12/21/25

🕯️Light in the Dark: Solstice Blessings + Poetry 🌟

“We must risk delight,” says Jack Gilbert in his poem, A Brief for the Defense, a poem that explores the paradox of the human condition, with its balance of light and dark, sorrow and joy.

April Bosshard 11/30/25 April Bosshard 11/30/25

Thinking on the Page 📄 ✍️ 🤔

Some of us spend more time thinking about our writing projects than actually writing them. While thinking about our projects is an important part of creativity, it never yields the same results as thinking with our pens on the page.

April Bosshard 10/30/25 April Bosshard 10/30/25

The Spirit of Aloha 🌴🌞

April Bosshard 9/30/25 April Bosshard 9/30/25

Paris 🥐 + Dublin 🍺

April Bosshard 8/26/25 April Bosshard 8/26/25

Formula One Zen Story Moment 🏎️🧘‍♂️

It wasn’t so much the film itself but rather the movie-going event that drew me…

April Bosshard 7/26/25 April Bosshard 7/26/25

I left my 💜 in Park City, UT 🐝

Everyone was part of one connected community and many new friendships were forged.

April Bosshard 6/29/25 April Bosshard 6/29/25

Fear vs. Wonder + Summer's Abundance... 🍒

Staying in tune with the natural reality of abundance might be the antidote to the kind of scarcity mentality that underlies so many of our existential fears.

April Bosshard 5/27/25 April Bosshard 5/27/25

My Promise: Always April, Never AI 🌟

Artificial Intelligence is the genie that’s never going back in the bottle. It’s here and evolving alongside us now, but it isn’t us, and never will be.

April Bosshard 4/30/25 April Bosshard 4/30/25

The Luck of the Irish ☘️

Leprechauns, rainbows, and lucky shamrocks. Ireland possess a kind of mysterious magic in spite of its sometimes troubled and tragic past.

April Bosshard 3/30/25 April Bosshard 3/30/25

Uncertainty Springs Eternal 🌸

Nature reminds us that life is change. Even in uncertain times. And we are living them, aren’t we? We all feel it, globally and personally.

April Bosshard 2/28/25 April Bosshard 2/28/25

SMWC + The Politics of Writing 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

In this divided, unpredictable time we’re living in, contentious popular politics were left outside the San Miguel Writers’ Conference venue, and a politics of humanity prevailed inside, especially the part that supports everyone to speak and write according to heart-based truth.

April Bosshard 1/31/25 April Bosshard 1/31/25

The Stories You Choose to Live, Read, and Write 📚

We are all living stories. Stories are all around us and working through us. We make stories. Our lives are stories. Paying attention to the stories we’re choosing to live can offer insights into the choices we’re making now or could make later.

character • character development • conflict • courage • creativity • drafting • goals • gratitude • inspiration • motivation • outlining • productivity • readers • resistance • revision • scenes • story • structure • success • talent • time • travel • uncertainty • writing process