Category Archives: Featured

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  New Anthology Captures Stories of Hope, Resilience from Aging LGBTQIA+ Community

  Posted on October 7, 2020 by IngridRicks in Featured

  If you want to experience the life-changing power of personal storytelling at work, Unmuted is a must-read. Over the past year, I’ve had the gift of teaming with GenPRIDE Executive Director, Steven Knipp, and the amazing GenPRIDE community to offer an ongoing writing workshop that has resulted in this incredible anthology. I’m honored to have played a […]

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  Write Your First Chapter Course Kicks Off via Zoom September 27th

  Posted on September 14, 2020 by IngridRicks in Featured

  If you have a memoir you need to write, check out my Hugo House course that starts September 27. In this intensive five-week course, I’ll teach you how to structure and outline your memoir and then develop your first chapter in a way that grabs readers and lays the foundation for your book. I’ll also help […]

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• Resolution 2020: Dance Baby, Dance

  Posted on January 4, 2020 by IngridRicks in Featured

  2019 was stressful and serious for me. So my daughter, Hannah, and I decided to make the new decade all about fun – starting with a daily dance party. Hope you’ll join us!

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• How to Pull Yourself Up When Life Throws You Down

  Posted on December 13, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  This vision loss thing has knocked me down hard plenty of times over the past year. And I know I’m not alone when it comes to the pain of this and other knock-out blows that life occasionally delivers. The only real question is how to get back on our feet once we regain consciousness and […]

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• How Do You Define Disability?

  Posted on December 6, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I never gave much thought to the word Disability until I was slapped with that label and told to expect widespread stigma and social isolation. That’s when I understood just how messed up these ingrained prejudices and assumptions are when it comes to people dealing with a challenge that has been shoved under the disabilities […]

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  What If Fear Didn’t Matter?

  Posted on October 8, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I’ve started thinking of fear as a malaria-carrying mosquito in Africa. They are tiny and lethal and impossible to escape. And as far as I can tell, there are only three real ways to deal with them. We  can freak out and launch a frantic attack on any mosquito we encounter — which is exhausting […]

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