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Creativity has always infused my life with great soul-satisfaction. I hope to inspire you.

dreamcatchers and such
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jul 1, 2018
  • 3 min

dreamcatchers and such

I know. I sort of fell off the blog grid a while ago. That's because I became swamped for a bit. First, swamped in the imaginary world of...
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Joyful Moments
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Mar 19, 2018
  • 3 min

Joyful Moments

Yesterday, as I passed the coffee counter at Wegmans, I noticed a tall man with a beautiful big box, most certainly a cake box. I felt th...
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Grown-Up Bulldozers: How to deal with middle-aged bullies
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Mar 12, 2018
  • 3 min

Grown-Up Bulldozers: How to deal with middle-aged bullies

Lately, in my endeavors in my various classrooms, I’ve been discussing kindness. As well as the flipside of kindness. In these conversati...
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Untitled: Words at a Loss for Words
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 27, 2018
  • 5 min

Untitled: Words at a Loss for Words

I haven’t been able to write since the shooting. If we’re decent human beings, these events knock our souls around. If we’re decent human...
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Love Yourself: Be your own Valentine
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 12, 2018
  • 5 min

Love Yourself: Be your own Valentine

"It is a shame for a woman to grow old without ever seeing the strength and beauty of which her body is capable." -Socrates. This Valenti...
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Love Your Tribe with Words
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 11, 2018
  • 2 min

Love Your Tribe with Words

Pictured here in my inspiration station is a small collection of the love notes from my husband. Over the years, they arrived with boxes ...
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Love your Local Business
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 11, 2018
  • 2 min

Love your Local Business

Valentine’s Day is also my husband’s birthday. A double whammy of activities and events revolving around decadent food and fun. So, we ma...
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Write Now: 5 Tricks to Change your Life with Writing
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 7, 2018
  • 2 min

Write Now: 5 Tricks to Change your Life with Writing

This isn’t English class. Forget about style or structure or punctuation. That will hold you back. Transform your life with writing. Here...
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Art & Story
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Feb 6, 2018
  • 4 min

Art & Story

Three films (Loving Vincent, Limelight, The Greatest Showman) and the Super Bowl touched my life this weekend. All three made up of just...
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Slay. Breathe.
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 28, 2018
  • 4 min

Slay. Breathe.

Today is dark and damp and January. I’m in what my dad calls a “blue funk.” Ever been there? It’s a mix of anxious frustration and a feel...
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The March
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 21, 2018
  • 5 min

The March

What I remember most about The Women’s March of 2017 was a feeling of sustained astonishment. The feeling that something big was happenin...
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My Inspiration Station
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • 1 min

My Inspiration Station

My nook and cranny for all things inspirational and important to feeding my creativity when it comes to my acting, teaching, and writing....
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Where's Your Inspiration Station?
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • 1 min

Where's Your Inspiration Station?

My creative space is in my laundry room closet where I house all my teaching books for my writing and acting classes, scripts, mementos, ...
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Let the Meltdown Lead You Home
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 17, 2018
  • 4 min

Let the Meltdown Lead You Home

Sometimes a total train wreck is just what you need. I’m talking a hot-mess, pass the Xanax, get-it-together-girl kind of breakdown that ...
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Notes from the Laundry Room
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 15, 2018
  • 4 min

Notes from the Laundry Room

There are some things you just can’t erase. Those little nagging internal instincts that tug on your gut, that mental know-it-all that wo...
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Test run
Gretchen Klinedinst Furst
  • Jan 11, 2018
  • 1 min

Test run

Testing my blog.. Finally starting a blog and this is a test run. Once you start reading my posts, please comment, like, and share! Thank...
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