In Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, there’s a list of 33 questions designed to guide the creative person toward epiphanies about her life’s work. She calls it her “creative autobiography.” I went through the questions last night, simply on first instinct, without writing anything down, and I was […]
Top 10 Pivotal Moments
Could you list the most pivotal moments in your life? I’d never given the idea much thought until I read a novel in which pivotal moments were a major theme. The characters, who possessed wildly different personalities, uncannily shared a few major life events that could be traced back to similar pivotal moments. These moments […]
My Word For 2019
For the past several years, I’ve been choosing a word to help me move into the New Year. This year, I decided not to. I didn’t feel like it did much for me in the past couple of years (though earlier words, like Brave in 2016 and Accept in 2015, helped me a lot). But […]
2019 Goals And Dreams
As I wrote in my last post, 2018 was not all smooth sailing. However, things were looking up by the end of the year, and I’m hopeful that 2019 will provide space for some hopes and dreams I’ve been nurturing. I’m not calling these resolutions, because I’m don’t have to change my life to make […]
2018 Year In Review
As I contemplate the fresh opportunity of 2019, I thought it would be helpful to look back on 2018 and consider what worked, what didn’t, the highs and lows. I’d like to share a few of each with you today. There are some big things (like dealing with anxiety) and some smaller things (like finding […]
Reading Harry Potter
I’ve been waiting more than seven years for what happened last night. Before putting my son to bed, I opened up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (the new illustrated edition) and read him the first chapter about The Boy Who Lived. It was the fulfillment of dreams. Way back when I was a “young […]