It’s hard to imagine, but someday this pandemic will be over. Someday, the world will open back up and we’ll be deposited back in the busy stream of life. What do you hope we’ve collectively learned when that time comes? I hope we’ve learned to take things slower. Do less, and think more. Cut out […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Blog Hiatus: 4 Lessons I Learned Behind The Scenes
While I was on hiatus from the blog, I was busy behind the scenes. The process of brainstorming content, creating a newsletter, and updating all of my old posts taught me valuable lessons about blogging and the overall direction of my writing life. Lesson 1: Have An Artistic Vision Based on brainstorming during the Pixels […]
The Writing Relationship
I’ve had a relationship with Writing for most of my life. I was formally introduced to Writing in kindergarten. I learned about her, letter by letter, and I understood her mentally, but sometimes our physical relationship struggled as my 5 year-old hand shook and cramped, holding the pencil over the special dot-dash paper. As I […]
November Mini-Series: Gratitude
Remember in the beginning of October, when I was excited about the 31 day blog challenge that so many of my favorite bloggers (Modern Mrs. Darcy, Carrie Willard) participated in? I’d said I wasn’t quite ready to take the challenge myself, but mentioned that I had an idea for a November blog series. Well, here […]