In an effort to break down some of my writing-fear (discussed in Sunday’s post) I’m going to try something fresh. Every night this week, I’m going to post about my day. It’ll be a free-write, similar to the way I write my daily journal. And I’m only going to give myself twenty minutes to do […]
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The Reason I Blog
It’s been almost two months since my last blog post. In that time it’s been hard to find my purpose for posting. Over my eight years of blogging, I’ve focused on two main reasons for writing on this page, and both reasons have been failing me lately. Reason One: I blog because I have something […]
Micro-Blogging
Last Thursday, I put up a short post about trying on my wedding dress. It was a post I felt inspired to write spontaneously, and took just over twenty minutes from start to finish. It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t scheduled. It wasn’t even a full-length post; it was micro-blogging. Yet it got a great reaction […]
The “4 Burners” Theory of Work/Life Balance
The 4 Burners theory is another way of telling us we can’t do what we want with our lives… Life is a tapestry, not a stove.
What I’ve Learned From Blogging Every Day
Today is the last day of my two-week blogging series. I’m really happy with the results! I set out to write a post every weekday for two weeks, and ended up with 11 posts in 14 days (I wrote an extra on a Saturday). I haven’t blogged this much in years and years, and it […]
Climbing Up The Ladder of Needs
Whenever life throws me curveballs, I picture myself slipping down a few rungs on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Usually, I’m able to balance up near the top, my family’s basic needs maintained by habit and routine, freeing my mind to focus on higher-level concerns. I can write. I can read. I can make time for […]