For those of you who may not know me, I love me a good list. I write them almost daily (I tend to take the weekends off). One day, recently, the thought came to me to ask myself the following question: “What is one thing that you can do today to bring you closer to …
Your mileage may vary, but if your area is anything like it is in my neck of the woods, walking across your front lawn, this time last week, felt and sounded like you were walking across a large piece of toast. Crunch, crunch, crunch. This morning, though, there was significantly less crunch. Everywhere I looked, …
Why did you do that? Why am I doing this? Why? Why? Why? It’s the most introspective of the “W’s” and, to my mind, one that gets the most overlooked. Why? Because. Be honest. I’ll bet it didn’t take any effort to jump between those two lines. You might even have seen that “Because” coming …
I tried something new today! I did, that’s why this post went live later than usual (You all buy that, right?). For those of you who are interested, it was a new breakfast recipe that allowed me to use the muffin-baking sheet that I got for x-mas. I won’t get into the details, suffice it …
I finished a story last week. Like proper finished a story, and turned it in. And then I moved onto the next project with nary a word. Primarily, this was because I had not one, but two other projects that I’d placed on hold to get this story done (Deadline shuffling). Secondarily, it was a …
Welcome to the first, real weekend of 2023! I hope you’ve been enjoying it. Ok, it’s the tail-end of the weekend, but there’s still time for relaxing, and refilling the well, and I’ll take every second I can get. Last Week, I talked about how I was going to dedicate 2023 to getting as much …
Welcome to the first post of 2023. It’s a divergence from my usual Sunday posts – Not the least of which being that this is going live on Monday. I’ve had some time off the day-job to think about the past year, and the coming year, and what I’d like to see in 2023. I’ve …
As happens every now and again, the subject of drafting and editing came up in my channels. The discussion is always a mixed bag of “Eh, it’s ok” and “I don’t mind it” and “Ah, I want to poke my eyes out” Someone even compared it to practicing the scales (they were a musician) and …
I confess to feeling a little bit burned out lately and when this reminder came out of the blue, it really struck home, so I decided to share it here. Each day is an empty page. Just for you. How does that with burnout, you might ask? The realization that you don’t have to keep …
Pruning: The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased, damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants. There are two primary times of the year where I turn an introspective eye on my life. I acknowledge that I should probably do this more often than twice a year, but those two times are the turn of …