It’s been six months since I started this writing project in step with my word of the year: Create. My first post was about my […]
The Day After Perfect
The day after perfect Everything breaks at once The things at least A laptop screen, a taillight, a step-tracker But I tie a ribbon around […]
Writing Update: Steady
Plugging along, team. I’m not writing voraciously, but I am writing steadily. The goal is to have a completed draft by the end of this […]
92 Books
I’m still using Goodreads to track, and as of this morning, I’ve completed 92 books this year, 42 of them over the last quarter (March-June).
It Is Our Choices
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” J.K. Rowling This quote from Harry Potter and the Chamber […]
The Crisis Road Trip Button
We made a pact, my friends and I, years ago, that if one of us was in crisis, we could call it, and the other […]
You Are Pre-Approved
I was letting Anne Lamott’s words wash over me as I went on a walk and finished her short book Almost Everything on audio. One […]
Good, Get Angry
There’s a Ted Talk by Ryan Martin that I found last week titled “Why we get mad – and why it’s healthy”. I plucked it out of my content slosh pile to discuss at our monthly lunch & learn yesterday.
Coming Home to Harry
There’s a large poster of Harry Potter opposite my bed. It’s the “Let the Magic Begin” poster from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone where Harry, in all his eleven-year-old intensity, stares me down.
Writing Update: Big Magic
I’m reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and swimming in all the gems of her creative wisdom. It’s one of those books that reminds me writing […]