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Recycling my babble for Earth Day

Posted in Writing & Career, tagged , , on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In honor of Earth Day I am going to do some recycling. Not my #2 plastics – I do that everyday (unless there’s too much gooey peanut butter stuck and then the jar sits on my counter “soaking” for a few weeks until I get sick of it and just chuck it. So sue me.) [...]

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Quoting Natalie: Tolerating fear

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on March 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »

“First recognize that you’re afraid and slowly build your tolerance for fear… … You may still feel it, but you become willing to bear it as you write. You keep your hand moving, you stay there, you move closer and closer to the edge of what scares you.” – Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning I [...]

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Finding my rhythm

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Children don’t know about rhythms, not the ones we adults recognize, anyway. Their internal beat is like one from another culture – African, Asian, Alien – that is not the 4/4 we Westerners are used to.  Time is of no consequence. Play always, eat whenever, sleep only when legs will no longer run.  Until my [...]

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Booger-fingers will not break my spirit

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Thinking Positively, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday I attended the Women Business Owners Network (WBON) Winter Conference in Manchester, Vermont. Everyone of the speakers was fantastic and one woman noted she felt “drunk on the energy.” I can’t begin to share all the things discussed but I will tell you, it was powerful! I believe in serendipity, in the power of [...]

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Quoting Natalie: Shake loose your mind

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I try to shake loose my mind, so something fresh can fall out… This process acts like a sifter – sand falls through and bright nuggets come to light. –Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning Writing for creativity While Natalie talks about “writing practice” in her book Thunder and Lightning (as she did in Writing Down [...]

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Ready. Set. Goals!

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Writing & Career, tagged , on January 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I love the New Year. I love starting over and the feeling of getting back on schedule (especially after the nutty holiday season). But above all I love starting a new journal! For the past few years I have just continued using the current journal until a) I ran out of pages or b) I [...]

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The Value of Doing Nothing

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on December 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I have sat down to write multiple times this week to no avail. I’m just spinning my wheels. Maybe I’m just distracted by the gifts in the closet that are one game of hide-and-seek away from being discovered. Maybe it’s the sudden smack of brutal cold temperatures. The drafts snaking under the 100 year old [...]

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Why *do* I write?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I have to admit I am writing this post to avoid what I had scheduled myself to write this morning. These days I have to block out time in my planner for every little thing I do. From the moment the family leaves for the day I must have a plan or else I end [...]

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Volumes of wisdom

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on November 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Every night I sleep next to Barbara Kingsolver, Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron, Christina Baldwin, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Anne LaMott, and Tristine Rainer. They don’t get much action but I love them all and like having them close by. Books on journaling, books on writing, and couple more on parenting. A few novels, two Brain, Child [...]

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Yes, I call myself a writer

Posted in It's all About Me, Writing & Career, tagged , on August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Over the past few days I have unintentionally initiated quite the debate on my facebook page. The cynicism, sarcasm and disbelief over the healthcare debate I have posted in my status has riled up my sister-in-law (out of four kids, she’s the only one who doesn’t have the liberal views of her siblings, including, thankfully, [...]

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