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Reflectioning
Posted on January 3, 2018 2 Comments
The calendar tells me I’ve turned over, but my lingering holiday household cleanup and leftovers in the fridge tell me I’m still transitioning. All in good time, it seems I am allowing my days to unfold rather than conquering them into a sense of re-entry order. Although every day is a good day to begin […]
A Great Reply for “So…What’s New with You?”
Posted on November 29, 2017 Leave a Comment
It’s easy to undervalue our interests. We think we have to master a skill, have actual talent, in order to own it. That if we’re dabbling, playing with something — for fun! — our interest is not yet ready to be declared. So here’s another creativity exercise for us to keep the plasticity in our brains […]
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 […]
Get Your Creativity On
Posted on March 29, 2017 Leave a Comment
I got lost in the grocery store the other day. I’d love to be able to say that it wasn’t my regular store, or that it was a really large building. Or even that something had changed in the layout that threw me off. Nope, none of the above. What was different was me. I had […]
Murphy Was An Idiot
Posted on September 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
You know that we get what we ask for, right? That’s really what law is. Let go of Murphy’s Law, the voice of doom and gloom. The one that says, “Anything that can go wrong, will.” Replace it with a new attitude, and make it your own. Call it, “insert your name here‘s Law.” Everything […]