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Six Words to One Story
Posted on October 18, 2017 Leave a Comment
Here’s an exercise for our creativity muscles: write a memoir in six words. No more, no less. Six words to tell a story. Hmmm. Lemme think about this for a bit… I first learned of this in Pam Grout’s new book, Art & Soul, Reloaded. As an example, she shares the story of Ernest Hemingway […]
Own Your Truth
Posted on October 4, 2017 Leave a Comment
Assertiveness: the individual dance of finding our steps between strong-willed and compliant. As both an overall approach and within individual settings. Many of us have experienced the help of others offering encouragement for us to be more assertive when we’re struggling. They tell us we need to ask for help. To delegate. To let go […]
What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
Posted on September 20, 2017 1 Comment
A good vacation shakes up your routine. A great vacation reverberates into an upgraded internal routine upon your return. My amazing summer road trip with my hubby and dog was a really good vacation. It was wonderful to do some completely new things and to see some different sights together. We journeyed on a local […]
How Hairstyles Lead to Crab Fishing
Posted on September 13, 2017 2 Comments
No, this isn’t an endless Google-search rabbit hole. (Although it could be — can anyone discover a link of six degrees from donating hair to crabbing?!? Bonus points if you can work in Kevin Bacon. Please share it in the comments!) It is a discovery of how Life opens up when you begin to say […]
You CAN Get There from Here! Here’s How.
Posted on August 30, 2017 Leave a Comment
We get dissatisfied, we want something else for ourselves. Something different. Something…more. This is not ingratitude: we are meant to continually grow and evolve. To become. Sometimes it’s a big outward thing, like a different job. Sometimes it’s a seemingly small outward yet great-big-huge inward thing, like more peacefulness. You know the feeling, of when […]
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