Now that I’ve been aiming to write daily in my blog for at least 365 days since Nov 29, 2019, my writer friend and I decided to meet daily to work on our novels, if just for the tiniest bit. With our work and other life stuff filling up much Read more
I cleaned out the refrigerator today, really cleared it out, scrubbing and wiping until everything was clean. There was old mayo I had made from scratch now covered with patches of furry mold from when we first moved into our apartment, about the first week of August. No wonder it Read more
It’s easy to forget to feel love and compassion, especially for yourself. I went to a free wellness circle today in Austin where you sit in a circle of strangers with your eyes closed as paper-thin needles are inserted into your ears (it’s called NADA – a non-verbal way to Read more
I’m a huge lover of stories about dysfunctional families. Maybe because I grew up in one that was all at once nonsensical yet overwhelmingly loving. Maybe that’s why I’m in love with stories by George Saunders like “Sticks”, David Sedaris’ stories, as well as Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors or Read more
Tracking What I Care About I’ve been successful, more or less, tracking other areas in my life, especially related around eating keto (i.e., tracking my fasting glucose, ketones, GKI), exercise and meditation. So recently it dawned on me, why don’t I track my writing? Especially around the blogging? It’s something Read more
I’ll be honest. I really didn’t feel like showing up today. At all. I almost talked myself out of blogging just now. But I had made a promise to myself to show up, whether or not anyone reads this or not. Because I had vowed to myself to take on Read more
Today, while meditating, I began to fret. Worried about something I said, worried about how it was received. As sometimes happens during meditation, thought bubbles of worry floated through my head. I wished I could help a grieving friend and her kids more than I had been, wishing I could Read more
With Thanksgiving this past week, I’ve been thinking about “Gratitude.” A friend of mine posted a writing exercise on her newsletter and I decided to open up a spread on my bullet journal notebook, write the word, GRATITUDE, in big green loopy cursive letters, then fill the space with whatever Read more
Have you ever climbed up 15 flights of stairs and told yourself: “It’s a HIIT workout; I’m working out my glutes!” When really, it was your way to avoid making chit-chat with others on the elevator? I was officially diagnosed with “Social Anxiety” around 2008, shortly after I enrolled in Read more
Today is Day 2 of 365 days of my new self-imposed writing challenge of blogging daily. Of getting out of my comfort zone. Even though I’ve been doing a Morning Pages practice for years, writing and journaling something almost every day, I’ve been a little too precious with my words. I’ve Read more