I find it an absolute gift when a writer can take me back to a time or a place that I’ve forgotten. When you think about it, there is just so much that we’ve forgotten – it’s hard to recall it all. That sounds like old lady gibberish but it captures precisely what I mean, …
How I Go To The Woods Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a singlefriend, for they are all smilers and talkers and thereforeunsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirdsor hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way ofpraying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, …
Some days you don’t write. Some days even when the stories are planned out in your head, you can’t get the words to flow. You just sit staring at the screen, making notes in new documents. Collecting titles and gathering ideas. I’m only happy when I write. If I don’t write, I feel empty. I’ve …
You don’t have time to be creative If you’re like me, you have ideas for stories you want to write or art you want to make all the time but the demands of the things you have to do first get in the way and leave you too flat and burned out to be creative. …
I was a book nerd from the start. Never needed any encouragement to read. Mostly, other stuff I had to do, like go to school, was an impediment to that. Yet, the distractions of the world get in my way and stop me from reading, far too often. I’ll lose an hour looking at cute/funny posts …
Can you believe there are only 80 days of this year left? How you feel about the passage of time is a pretty good indicator of whether you’re on top of your goals. Sometimes, ‘goals’ can feel a little too anxiety-inducing for me, and so I focus on ‘hopes’ instead. I had high hopes for 2019, …
I feel a deep longing for some soul-filling creative time. I’ve been powering along at full tilt for months now, developing my business to become what it needs to be, and my body is telling me to slow the pace down. When I’m working like this, I’m not connecting fully to the things that matter …
1. Get into the water. A loss, a small fail, a hurtful thing spoken by a friend — these things nestle inside you and might not show up at the conscious level until some time has passed. In an effort to be resilient and strong, your mind probably pushed them away but your heart didn’t move on …