Prioritization. Flexibility. And Music. This past week was the third week in my month of “Rest.” And it was pretty busy. Sometimes like is like that. Things come up and knock heads with your carefully planned day. I used to find that pretty stressful – ok, that makes it sound like I don’t find it …
Here we are, at the halfway point in my quest for rest this month and…I’m starting to think that I wouldn’t know what true rest was if I tripped over it. Ok that might not be exactly true, but it sure is a hard to come by thing. Part of it is the muscle memory …
If you’d read Last Week’s Post, (Thanks!) you’ll know that I intended to make this July a month of introspection and rest. Well here we are after one full week and let me tell you what I’ve learned so far. First, I was so focused on the idea of “Rest” that I hadn’t really defined …
There are two times of the year when I get really introspective. I mean the mood can come on at any time really, but those two times of the year really flip that switch. The first is the New Year. For me, it’s natural to look back and reflect, and also to look forward and …
This will be the final Sunday Blog Post for the month. There’s still a Five-Thing Thursday coming before the calendar clicks over. And, as you might have gleaned from the title, June has been…a bit more intense than most of the other months this year. I won’t get into details, but let’s just say that …
Let’s say I give you a line or two – just the seed of a story – and I ask three of you to come up with something. Hell, let’s not just suppose it, here’s something to work with: “Yes, Time-Travel isn’t something you’d normally find on an expense report, but hear me out.” You’re …
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 …
This time last week, I was at Balticon and it would have been the penultimate day of the con, and my busiest of the weekend. I may have been a bit ambitious about my schedule. Or, now that I’m thinking about it, maybe it was that I thought that I could just jump back into …
While today is not quite the last day of Balticon 2023, it is going to be the last day for me and I’ve got a few thoughts about that. First, if everything goes to plan, this post will be going live earlier in the day. As such, I’d be remiss if I didn’t include my …
Last week, particularly toward the tail-end of last week, I suffered an Eating the Elephant moment. I had so much to do, with varying deadlines and I wasn’t getting any of it done. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do it – in fact, I did want to do it – I just couldn’t …