This morning I was bringing my daughter back to Boston and we were having a discussion about life choices. We were talking about the difference between people who just go to a job everyday that they hate, just to earn money to live and people who have found their passion, turned it into a career, . . . → Read More: What Are You Doing?
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Tonight, after a harrowing day of taking my daughter for lasik surgery yesterday, I wanted nothing better than a quiet evening in my chair, with a glass of wine, after a nice dinner. (It all turned out fine even though we sat in traffic due to an accident, arrived two minutes before the appointment because, . . . → Read More: Taught By Tulips I have been practicing Bikram yoga for two and a half years now. People often ask me why Bikram, as opposed to other types of yoga. I always say I do Bikram for medicinal reasons. The medicinal reasons are too many to go into during most of these conversations, but I always wish I could . . . → Read More: Why I Do What I Do If you don't know Keith Jennings, get to know him through his Sunday newsletter, Root Notes. A few weeks ago I published a post about Keith's newsletter on his resolutions. Keith is a writer and shared with us some very wincing things we do when we write, and his resolutions to fix them. I . . . → Read More: A “New” Writer? I firmly believe that the relationships between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons are sacred. They reach far, far into every other relationship in our life. They determine how we will find and treat a spouse. They determine how we will raise and treat our children. They determine how we will behave in close . . . → Read More: That’s True, BUT… Yes. A day of studying trees. Today while working on my illustrating project it became apparent, as my focus shifted from my main characters to the backgrounds, there are a lot of trees involved. I needed to explore tree parts and shadows. I also think each picture is going be quite small, so I needed . . . → Read More: Studying Trees Some days are just filled with love. Not big, huge starry-eyed I'm falling in love love, but teeny tiny fondness love for little ordinary things. This weekend, as I cleaned, relaxed, and did artwork, I found myself saying "I really love and appreciate ______." to my husband four or five times. I asked him to . . . → Read More: iLuv While cleaning out the magazine holder I came across a crinkled copy of Writer Magazine from 2010. It was folded to page 12, indicating I must have been reading something of interest when I set it down two years ago. I questioned the importance of the article since I never returned to it. Curiosity got . . . → Read More: Write Like An Athelete – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog How familiar is that phrase? For the last two weeks I've had more "I don't feel like it" moments than is normal for me. When it came time to go to yoga or fit club, to write, draw, go to a meeting, etc. I had two choices. One, I could just get up and push . . . → Read More: I Just Don’t Feel Like It What? Live with an unsolved problem? Really Lord? There's peace in that? That was my reaction to my morning reading this morning. I'm taking a second trip through Melody Beattie's More The Language of Letting Go. This morning that concept was just flung across the page, striking me, and even enraging me a little. Isn't . . . → Read More: What? LIVE With An Unsolved Problem? |
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