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A Penny Makes Change by Mark Speight
A Penny Makes Change Mark Speight, graduate student in Counseling Written in the Southwestern College weekly writing group facilitated by Dr. Ann Filemyr A penny makes change. A...
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From the Charm City to the Land of Enchantment! Discovering the Gift in being the only African American in my Graduate School Classes
It’s been approximately 60 days since I packed up Lotus, my 2003 Honda Pilot, with all of my belongings that I could fit into it so I could relocate...
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A Boy & His Sketchbook by William C Jenkins Jr
Poem in Third person about your wildest love A Boy & His Sketchbook There once was a introverted boy, most people associated him with being shy, living in...
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Seen by the Essene
A submission and transmission came today during the Creative Writing group, led by Dr. Ann Filemyr, as a response to the prompt which was to use either 'hello' or 'goodbye'...
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The Fully Human Adolescent
This essay was written as a reflection paper for Applied Theories of Human Development. In this class we discuss different stages of development in the human lifespan. As we all...
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First Year Student Living in New Mexico for the First Time
Being a first year student and new resident to New Mexico, orientation and the thought of the first day of classes was very intimidating. However, orientation was a great time....
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New to Santa Fe: A First Quarter Perspective
For the last twenty-three years I’ve grown up in a small town in Iowa, and almost two months ago moved to Santa Fe to pursue my passion for helping others...
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New Beginnings
I am settling into the first quarter of graduate school, and I can barely believe I am here- a sentiment it appears I share with many of my fellow students....
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The Hogwarts Express
I am nearing the end of the first quarter of graduate school, and I can barely believe I am here- a sentiment it appears I share with many of my...
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The Collective Unconscious of Writing Group
The writing group at SWC is a place where students, faculty, and staff can come together and share in a communal free-writing experience each Thursday at noon. Patterned after Natalie...
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Bringing the Divine Feminine to Campus – Ann Filemyr, Ph.D.
Bringing the Divine Feminine to Campus by Ann Filemyr, Ph.D.I believe the Ultimate could be a vast energetic being, nameless, formless, skinless, disembodied raw creative force power zipping through the universe...
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“Return to Sender”
Writing has quite simply saved my life. When I was sixteen I was on the verge of ending my life when I received a letter informing me that my first...
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What the Writing Group has Meant to Me – Jaylek Ahn
What the Writing Group has Meant to Me – Jaylek AhnWhile difficult to put into just a few words, I am so grateful for the depth of emotion, opening, closing,...
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Ponderings on Life Purpose
Life purpose and vocation; I sometimes wonder how they are related. Sometimes I hear life purpose described simply and clearly, like this quote from notetoselfphilosophy.com: Note to Self: “What is my purpose in life?”...