2016-03-222021-10-29

Monday, a run through the driving rain, hail, a sweet reminder.

Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, Movement

I started running at twenty four. I could not even run a mile before I started to wheeze. But, within two years, I was up to five miles five to ... Read more

2016-03-062021-10-29

I grow old… I grow old…

Memoir

How can 42 be the answer to the ultimate question regarding life, the universe, and everything when it’s so damn old? Seriously, my face has actually begun to slide away ... Read more

2016-02-162021-10-29

Post-Valentine Reflection: Plans and Vampires

Memoir

I’m not entirely sure where I’m headed in this blog, though I do know there’s something I want to say, something that feels urgent. I’ll do what I do in ... Read more

2016-02-152021-10-29

One true sentence? Considering Hemingway.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

My seniors are reading Hemingway, so, of course, I am rereading him too. And thinking about him and his oft-quoted advice to writers. Just one true sentence? The truest sentence ... Read more

2016-02-022021-10-29

Where we embrace determinism

On writing

In some aspects of popular psychology, we doggedly embrace free will. Those who are not happy are choosing that state of mind. And happiness is the new American Dream. We ... Read more

2016-01-272021-10-29

What it took.

A Room Of Your Own, Movement

I woke at four, made coffee, walked the dogs. I sat down to write a little bit later than usual, but only about five minutes. But five minutes turned to ... Read more

2016-01-102021-10-29

One day spent chaperoning debate nerds. Two insights about writing fiction.

A Room Of Your Own, Goals, On writing

I say nerds admiringly. After all, I was one of them back in highschool when I regularly skipped other classes to work on my debate cases. Am one of them, ... Read more

2016-01-062021-10-29

New Year Mantras: Love inward, and outward; Speak your mind; Get your work out; Love your gorgeous body.

Goals

I can’t resist the call to set intentions for a new year. Call them goals, resolutions, crazy schemes—whatever you like. I love making them. And I don’t fret about failure. ... Read more

2016-01-042021-10-29

What I Read In 2015/Want To Read in 2016

Book Reviews!

I’ve been keeping track of what I’ve been reading since 2009 here on this blog. My goal for 2015 was to read 50 books. I came pretty close at 42, ... Read more

2015-11-172021-10-29

Reflections on Nanowrimo at the midpoint, plus the not-so-sexy-after-all struggle

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Yesterday morning I made it to 25,800 words on my Nanowrimo novel. My writing morning went as usual, with one significant difference. My alarm blared Bryan Adams “I’m Gonna Run ... Read more