Happy Leap Day, everyone! And happy end of February… I’ll be very glad to see March tomorrow. I’ve been doing a monthly retrospective this year, just for my own reflective purposes, and this month was not as much fun to write about as January. We’ve had a lot of illness, some disappointments, too much time […]
Finding God in the Creative Process
I spent the first two months of 2020 working through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way workbook. It’s my second time through– the first was in my mid-twenties– and I found the program much more impactful this time. While I don’t consider myself a blocked artist or an artist “in recovery,” I still learned a great […]
We Are Book People
Yesterday morning when I dropped my kids off at daycare (full day for my daughter; my son goes to school but gets the bus there) my daycare provider complimented my son. She was impressed by how he is able to sit and focus on reading a book while he waits for the bus in the […]
Irons In The Fire
A colleague asked me recently, “How do you choose what to write? Don’t you get paralyzed by all your potential ideas?” I get a lot of questions about the writing life, but this one gave me pause. I thought for a moment, then told him, “I get excited about a particular form, and then I […]
To Care for Others, You Must First Care for Yourself
For about ten days in the middle of February, either I or one of my children was sick. It brought my life to a complete halt. I had to take a few sick days to care for me/us; I was hardly writing; I didn’t maintain most of my healthy habits. Everything else fell away while […]
Grandma’s Card Game
Hello, readers! I’m back with the February blog challenge! I’ll be starting today with a story about a card game and what it taught me about making the best of difficult times, then I’ll be posting every day until Saturday, the end of February. Let me confess: I really need this blogging challenge right now. […]