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Children Full of Life- a moving documentary
Please take the time to watch this. I think you’ll be glad if you do. Part 1 of 5 Related posts Just in time for the holidays: My Christmas Wish List (0) Happy Valentine’s Day! (0) "O" (2)
Someone, who is me, is starting Every Day in May right now!
That’s right! I can’t take it anymore! I need a creative body of work! I’m tired of worrying about humdrum things like where my next rent check is going to come from. PHOOEY! Yes, Mr. Worry about rent check while my life drifts past me, to YOU I say PHOOEY!!! Thanks for the boost, Elena, [...]
Write a little everyday
Write a little everyday, without hope, without despair. -Isak Dinesen Found in Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher Wow, I could use that sentiment in a lot of areas of my life: “Exercise a little everyday, without hope, without despair.” “Reach out to other people a little everyday, without hope, without despair.” “Plant [...]
Ode to Adam
It’s my friend Adam’s birthday today (well, technically just past as it’s now past midnight.) I always forget and think his birthday is in March. He was due before me. Our mom’s were in a childbirth class together and the story goes that his overdue mom came to visit my mom and Adam met me [...]
Rat Park (part 2)
My plans for rat park rather than rat cage living written a couple months ago: One night a week at a track club: I like running every now and then- I especially like running fast and this track work out is dedicated to speed work. Dancing: My favorite dance company in my town has moved [...]
Joy Points
I’m starting a new feature called Joy Points. I’m doing this program called Wired for Joy and one of our assignments this week is to collect 100 joy points. 100! In a week! How joyful do they want us to be, anyway? :) I’m already feeling more joyful (first day of new week of class) [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
What do I wish for you, my internet Valentines? I wish you happiness, with all my heart. I wish you a world where you can be safe. I wish you pleasure. I wish you’d watch this video of Eve Ensler. She’s talking about her journey since she started writing about vaginas. She’s talking about what [...]
To all my writer friends:
Free online writing courses! Some of these look pretty fun, like this Advanced Essay Course at MIT: Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other categories of identity, either our own or other’s, in prose that is expository, exploratory, investigative, persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will [...]
Let’s see… I think I’ll pick door number 2
I’m doing some serious job/mission thinking. I’m taking an analytical approach and doing skills/interests/values exercises which have served me well in the past. I’m also using my “follow my interests” approach, which has led me down several interesting but puzzling roads in the past, such as becoming certified as a hypnotherapist. Current interests: teach an [...]
That darned ACLU
You give one charity $25 and before you know it, Anthony D. Romero from ACLU is writing you compelling donation letters. And you can say to the letter, “Look, I know I donated to you once, but I just quit my job and Christmas is coming up.” To which Anthony responds, “At the heart of [...]
