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End of summer musings 26 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
Whether I’m ready to accept the fact or not, summer – such as it was, weather-wise – is fast coming to an end as the month of September approaches at what seems like lightning speed. The imminent arr...
Fear, the mind-killer 24 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
We bought bookcases yesterday – an inexpensive one for my husband’s office and an only slightly more expensive one for our dining room. (Finally, after nearly two years in this house, we might actuall...
Today’s Gratitude List 23 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
It’s good to stop, sometimes, and take a quick inventory of the things in your life for which you’re grateful at that moment in time. In no particular order, here is my own gratitude list for this mom...
Where is your voice? 17 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
It’s in there, somewhere, amid A dozen drafts Status updates written, then deleted Tweets left unsent It’s in there, somewhere, amid Reluctance to be judged Unwillingness to disappoint Yearning...
For the love of tangling 10 Aug 2013 | 05:10 am
There’s a new love in my life, and its name is tangling! Early in June of this year, while scrolling through the latest submissions on the FMS Photo A Day Facebook group, a picture of another member’...
The Power to Hurt 3 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
In the long-ago summer of 1986 I was 19 years young, had just squeaked through my first year of university, and was back in what I considered to be my hometown to look for a job. Not exactly sure wha...
First Thoughts, Post-BlogHer ’13 30 Jul 2013 | 10:40 pm
I am now safely ensconced in my seat on a crowded Amtrak train, somewhat wistfully leaving Chicago following an incredible few days that flew by all too quickly – days of spending quality time with fr...
Questions on self-image 10 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am
What if you suddenly discovered that some long-held, deeply ingrained, negative belief about yourself was a complete and utter lie? What if for one moment you chose to see yourself the way others saw ...
Questions on creative self-confidence 3 Jun 2013 | 07:58 pm
When you refer to yourself as a writer, a photographer, an artist, a creative person – do you ever feel like a fraud? Like you’re willfully labeling yourself with something that you desperately want t...
Comfort 26 May 2013 | 07:36 pm
After years of tossing and turning on the hard and poke-y springs of the old, uncomfortable, instrument of torture that was my far past its prime bed, I finally have something new in my life. King-siz...
