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Down the rabbit hole. 16 Jul 2013 | 08:35 am
Hi friends. I feel like for some time now, blogging has become a series of sad, apologetic updates from me to you wherein I explain why I'm not writing very much. The answer to that, currently, is th...
Letters to myself 30 Jan 2013 | 04:27 am
I'm four weeks into The Artist's Way, the creativity workshop I'm doing with my good friend Kimberly, and hoo-boy, friends. It turns out unlocking your creativity is a lot of hard work. Sometimes I fe...
A date at the library. 10 Jan 2013 | 05:48 am
On January 1st, my friend Kimberly and I started a twelve-week program called The Artist's Way, a workshop centered on recovering your creativity from a variety of blocks "including limiting beliefs, ...
In 2012 2 Jan 2013 | 11:04 pm
New Year's posts may be redundant, but they're natural and maybe even essential. It is normal to want to reflect on your life at the end of one year and at the dawn of another. 2012 was one of the...
Book Review: The Age of Miracles 12 Dec 2012 | 02:19 am
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker My rating: 4 of 5 stars "And it seems to me now that the slowing triggered certain other changes too, less visible at first but deeper. It disrupted certai...
We must make. 6 Dec 2012 | 03:55 am
Artists are a funny bunch of people. We feel compelled from some deep, mysterious place inside us to always be creating something. Sometimes it's just spewing words into our journals or sketching in o...
Loved strikes familiar chords. 21 Nov 2012 | 11:26 pm
I have this fabulous friend from high school, Kimberly Novosel, and she just published her first novel. We grew up in the same small town and she was best friends with my best friend's younger sister....
Thanks in advance, Tori. 20 Nov 2012 | 01:28 pm
I've been thinking a lot about music lately. I don't know if I've ever met anyone who has said to me, "I'm just not that into music," and quite frankly, I think if I did, we couldn't be friends. If...
On the subject of TMI 10 Oct 2012 | 04:09 am
People who know me know that I'm sort of an open book. An external processor. I like to TALK about my feelings - all of my feelings, in great detail. And I like it when my loved ones talk to...
They came to get down. 14 Aug 2012 | 07:23 am
Ever listen to a band and, regardless of what the singer looks like, you're ready to have sex with him or her right then and there purely because of the sound of his/her voice? I mean, we've all been ...