becoming bendy.
I’m continuing my quest to become bendy in 2012. Sometimes I fall off the wagon. Do you? Here’s the thing I know: I need a community of people to help me, encourage me, keep me accountable, make me laugh and dust off the truffle powder and get back up. Community …
make strong offers.
I have made a conscious decision from the moment I started writing 37days that I would not allow ads on this site, though many have asked. That I wouldn’t accept product reviews. That I wouldn’t create affiliate programs or participate in them. This means that if I write about something …
poetry wednesday : invent one.
Reply to the Question: “How can You Become a Poet?” -Eve Merriam take the leaf of a tree trace its exact shape the outside edges and inner lines memorize the way it is fastened to the twig (and how the twig arches from the branch) how it springs forth in …
you have a voice. now use it.
So. I spent the day trying to figure out how to use my microphone and Macbook Pro to create a podcast and a video. All stinkin’ day. Plugging and unplugging, trying it out, hearing nothing, flipping another switch, changing one system preference and then another. Endlessly. I felt like I …
because i, too, have a dream.
I have found as I’ve made my way into adulthood in this life of mine, that I share his dream. And I have dreams of my own. I have a dream that we won’t fool ourselves into thinking Dr. King’s dream has been realized. I have a dream that one …
thinking thursday.
mind “…grieving is an unavoidable part of life — the necessary price we all pay for having the ability to love other people. Our lives consist of a series of attachments and inevitable losses, and evolution has given us the emotional tools to handle both.” This commentary is about proposed …
poetry wednesday : before the weather changes.
Snow Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth I lumbered into a storm of snow up the long hill and did not know where I was going except to the top of it. In those days we went out like that. Even children went out like that. Someone was …
measuring the intangibles that matter.
A woman with a beautiful voice and a big mind asked me to be on her radio show this past week. And I said yes. We hadn’t talked before, but it seemed as if we had. Koren Motekaitis and I talked for an hour, and I just listened to the …
mindful monday : let it go.
The three questions on my arm are a constant reminder: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? 2012 is the year of letting go for me. Letting go of preconceived notions about my work in the world. (Can I work and …
