A Room Of Your Own

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

2016-02-152021-10-29

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

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

2015-10-132021-10-29

A reminder to Make Time.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Hello writer friends!By this time of year I’ve normally posted an anxiety fueled post about the start of the school year, the subtext of which is always HOW IN THE ... Read more

2015-08-032021-10-29

Washing the dishes

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing

Just like the themes we are threading in our stories, these topics about the creative life resurface again and again. I’ve written many times before about focus, about staying in ... Read more

2015-07-192021-10-29

Go ahead, unfriend me, Facebook.

On writing

My best friend is the queen of unfriending. She has rules that define who to unfriend. Those who make passive-aggressive comments are the first to go. The signs are clear ... Read more

2015-07-142021-10-29

Nostalgia is a funny thing.

Nostalgia, On writing

Summer is ripe for nostalgia. As children, upon the arrival of summer, we become suddenly free to choose. Choose our own books (in my case by the armload taken from ... Read more