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Danger: Toxic levels of self-bashing

Posted in It's all About Me, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This post is a bit of an off-shoot for me but as I write it I will somehow figure out how to make a journaling prompt out of it. And I also know many of you will relate to what I am about to say. I got rejected. By a home-cleaning professional. Let me explain. [...]

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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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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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The many hats of me

Posted in It's all About Me, tagged , , , on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I need a haircut. The shaggy, steel wool mop that haloes my head is reflected in the screen of my laptop as I sit on the deck this glorious late summer morning. I also need to finish organizing the new office which until 3 days ago was the kids room. Boxes of books, old files, [...]

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Green snot and fruit flies

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I am sick. Husband is sick. Children are sick. Green snot sick. Pull those puffy red things out of the back of your throat and put them on ice for a few days sick. My eyes hurt looking at this white screen but I will attempt to write a few words.About fruit flies. They [...]

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Put the blog down and step away from the computer

Posted in Life, Home & Community, Writing & Career, tagged , on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I should have known. I know what I’m like. This blog, the blog I insisted was not for me, has me and won’t let go. Each time I walk past my desk it calls out to me. I check 50 times a day to see if anyone has happened upon (out of the 2, 010,030 [...]

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