This blog is having an identity crisis. It’s gone through phases but it has not arrived. Not that I need to point that out — the very fact that I have not posted in a month says plenty about th...
The strangest thing happened today. I submitted a story around 10:30. And I signed on to check my student emails and grading list. All of the items are dated 4/24 or later, which means it has not bee...
What I wish I were doing right now…. [photo credit] I always do this….Yes, I’m referring to the fact that it’s been a MONTH since my last post. :) But for once, I don’t ...
gripe about being sick or complain about the frustrating company I’m doing a project for or make excuses for why I have not blogged in a while (woe is me) BUT It hit me this morning. You know h...
Eric showed me a site not too long ago that I was eager to get on board with. 750 words is a website/community where members write “private, unfiltered, spontaneous, daily” entries in a j...
It’s been a long time since I posted a recipe. Most of our cooking in this season is done quickly and with hopes of many leftovers for lunches and dinners without extra cooking. But I posted a...
[photo via MaltaGirl] “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” – Berthold Auerbach, 19th century German novelist “Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once” – Robert Brown...
10 days, you say? Impossible. But busy is good—I really do like it more than that other life. As long as I still get to see little glimpses of serenity in between the work. Like waking up to simple ...
Lift your eyes Where the roads dip and where the roads rise Seek only there Where the grey light meets the green air. From T.S. Eliot’s “Landscapes” [photo credit]
[photo credit: Todd Binger] Here’s a little change of pace for you all. I suppose I’ve whined enough recently. If this post looks like whining, it really is not. It is a well intended w...
[Credit: Gian] I’m stuck again, struggling for some time now to pin down this no man’s land. Thankfully, this week has been much less gloomy (in mind and weather), and that alone has pro...
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. —Jesus Friends, I have not been feeling blogging lately. See, what happens with clinical depression and j...
I’ll be honest. I haven’t been exactly sure how to approach the followup to the story of my name. When I finally had the short-lived courage to begin this short series of posts, I didn&#...
At the start of the new year, I wrote that my “word” for this year..and last year…and the year before that.. has been joy. Not long before that, I had written a poem that would bec...
Christmas brought plenty of encouragement this year in every regard: I got to see every family member on my side of the family, hid away in a cabin in a ghost town, skied, water-parked, did NO work, ...
[via Kinahmi] I’m practicing writing with my new fountain pen, pondering the old and new, tending to a clingy kitty (who didn’t quite like that we made him sit in the car for 12 total hou...
[photo] I find it hard, as slips of skin whisper off, to find rough places to grip. A small one needs the hook of a finger around its belly but soon rests palm heavy like a river rock, white and hard...
ברינה I lean on five letters and they slope to carry my weight, these pounds of muscle, mind, and organ pushed through pen stroke, calligraphed into language I can’t read. My eyes stumble right...
Created by me, with Mixel For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying wit...
It’s beginning to look a lot like….
“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in ...
[photographer] I’ve been writing more in my journal and in my mind than in my blog, lately. Writing in my mind? Yes, that is something I just made up to make thinking sound important. But all s...
Happy Friday, Veterans’ Day, and 11/11/11, friends. I’m writing a website bio and story for a “client” who is very dear to my heart. She happens to also be my sister, so I end...
Oh, friends. First, I must report that my assigned writing is going fine; well, even, for so early on! I remain happily capable of being told precisely what to do and how to do it. But only of that. ...
[photo credit] Previous gifts here 241. Heavy cream swirling clouds in tea. 242. Thick socks on hard wood floor. 243. The long, happy life of a missed pup. 244. Magical, unexpected overlap of concept...
The lovely and gracious Bethany over at She Writes and Rights has facilitated my very first guest post today! Bethany is a fabulous freelance writer, copywriter, and blogger — the kind that mak...
I have a problem with honesty. Do you? When I was young, this problem looked like actual lying — mostly about things that didn’t matter at all. “Have you seen such-and-such movie?&#...
1. The most exciting news about a friend. Um, the kind I can’t tell. I laughed and cried. 2. An amazing job opportunity. Wednesday, I received a call from a job I applied for literally MONTHS ...
credit Let me preface this post by saying, first of all: I know I am exceedingly blessed right now to have the time I have to cultivate my artistic bent. I am absolutely the person who gets busy an...
Dear, dear readers, Thank you so much for your outpouring of support of my new venture, here, on Facebook, and via email. It means so much. Today I’ve been sending emails to some local compani...
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