Did you choose three words (or one word) to live by this year? Have you checked back to see how you're doing with these words? Last December, in a post titled Three Powerful Words for An Amazing New Year, I announced my words and the thought behind them. Since we're halfway (gasp) through the year, […]
I think writing non-negotiables are a great idea. What are they? Writing non-negotiables are the the tasks you don't negotiate with yourself, you just do. They are the one thing or several things that you must–in agreement with yourself–do every day. If you don't do them, you'll feel lousy. If you do them, you'll feel […]
"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." Joyce A Myers For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about motivation this weekend. Because I think that sometimes we need it to get ourselves started. And by "started," I don't mean just beginning a project. I'm talking about starting a writing session. Here's […]
One of the recent phrases of wisdom I've been attempting to follow is this: Expect nothing, accept everything. To which I add: and show up. I'm not sure where the original quote came from. I heard it at church. It resonates with me because it has taken me a long time to grasp the "expect […]
Today is Ash Wednesday. I am by no stretch of the imagination an authority on this or any other Christian holiday, seeing as how I was raised in the Unitarian church, and in Sunday School we learned about needy children of other cultures, mostly Africa. (Which is no doubt why, to this day, I have […]
I'm enduring a messiness of mind this week. It feels like I've been on a full-out run since mid-December. There's the mad Christmas rush, of course, followed by New Year's and my daughter's birthday. And then I had to get organized for my trip to Nashville last week, which was more complicated than usual because […]
Some days, my life is one long series of resistance. I want to eat couscous with my lunch, but the voice inside my head warns me it's a carb and I really shouldn't eat carbs. I want a glass of wine before dinner, because all the males of the family are drinking beer and watching […]
This morning I woke up tired, headachy, and full. Yesterday was, after all, Thanksgiving. And I cooked for 12 people, which is enough to give anybody an exhaustion hangover. As I stood in the kitchen, sipping my coffee, I thought that I'd skip my morning routine of writing first thing. Because, well, I didn't feel […]
Everyone talks a lot about making time to write, but do you take time to write? I have a lot of transition points throughout the day, times when I'm segueing from one project to the next, or switching from being out and about to sitting at my desk, working. At these junctures, I often find […]
I'm staying on top of a hill at a resort in Gatlinburg. And when I say hill, I mean hill. You could, perhaps, even call it a small mountain. Well, if you were familiar with western mountain ranges like the Rockies or the Cascades you probably wouldn't, but here you could. Also when I say […]
