My body is apparently making up for years of not being sick by trying to catch everything possible in the first quarter of this year. This week it was stomach flu, and I’ve only just been able to sit at a computer long enough to write. While the topic is fresh on my mind, here are my tips on surviving it!
Read MoreThere are a couple of statistical phrases that I think about often. You know the ones: You read an article or a study somewhere, a while ago, and don’t remember anything about it other than this one takeaway. You don’t even remember the exact percentages or where the numbers came from, but this one thing sticks with you.
The five people you spend the most time with are solid indicators of your socio-economic status, interests, etc..
If you want to know what’s truly important to you, look at what you spend your money on.
Read MoreIt never occurred to me not to do things because I had scoliosis. No one ever told me that there was anything I might be unable to participate in. I’m still not quite convinced that I’ve done anything impressive, other than absorb the realization of “Anything can and WILL happen to you,” as a twelve-year-old, but just in case, I thought I’d throw this out there.
Read MoreI was recently asked who motivates me when I am having a tough time putting one foot in front of the other, or have an overwhelming about of choices on my to do list. The short answer, is that I think it’s largely still me. But I’ll elaborate.
Read MoreDean and I have both now had to quarantine from the other’s Covid attack in an 800 square foot house. Here’s what it looks like from both sides.
Read MoreI think it’s important to just keep showing up. Even though the outcome of showing up cannot be controlled. The one thing I can continue to do is my best. Even on the days when my best feels like a big fat failure, it’s what I can give. So I’ll keep on giving it. And I hope you will too.
Read More2023 has started out a bit rocky. My entire family fell really ill. While I was laid out, Dean lost his job.
Suffice it to say that the first week of January wasn’t our favorite. But I’m not looking at this as a bad omen. This is a restart.
Read MoreRecently I had a friend ask me this question. If I knew I would never get published, would I still write?
Read MoreDo you slow down in the ‘between times’ at the end of the year? I usually don’t, but I wonder if perhaps we’re supposed to.
Read MoreI love that we, as humans, regardless of what ritual we may or may not be observing, collectively throw up lights against the darkest time of the year.
Read MoreDo you ever wonder if your writer friends actually write you into their stories? What about your writer enemies? :-)
Read MoreThere are advantages and disadvantages to both, but does one have a distinct leg up overall? And does it really matter if at the end, you get your work done?
Read MoreAt the beginning of November, I posted an entry detailing my decision to participate in my first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a writing ‘contest’ held every November. It’s free and the goal is to get to 50,000 words by the end of the month. Now that it’s over, here are my takeaways.
Read MoreNew friends are fantastic and fun, and there’s the exciting getting-to-know-you period where you uncover all the delightful facets of this person that you’re intrigued by little by little, hoping that this friendship has the potential to become lasting. But there’s something about old friends. Where you just fall in. They know all your weird little peccadilloes and don’t mind them. Some of them might even be part of what makes them love you. Friends you can say ‘I love you’ to without worrying if it’s weird or creepy.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered why you hate things that really don’t hurt you?
Read MoreAsking for help can be intimidating. There are three things I believe to be true:
The first ‘yes’ generates confidence and makes it easier to go after the next one.
People, as a rule, want to help where they can.
When you get those yeses, reciprocate. There’s always something you can give back.
This year a writing group that I’m a part of decided to enter NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) as a group. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me.
Read MoreNo matter how organized or on top of things one is, there will come a day, a week, maybe even a month, where you feel like your scrambling and barely keeping your head above water. Often when we’re overwhelmed, we freeze or procrastinate (or choose your own less-than-desirable panic reaction) and forget the easiest way out: start small.
Read MoreWe all feel ‘like idiots’ when we feel we’ve been taken in in some way, but there is a special kind of shame that women feel when they thought they’d made a friend and ‘once again’ he was only interested in objectification and sex.
Read MoreIn positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time. - From Wikipedia
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