Take a Moment Monday: Find Your Why
You know how every once in a while you do something and the little voice inside says, ‘There. That’s it. That’s why you’re here.’ … and you get a warm glow in your heart because you know it’s…
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Take a Moment Monday: Have Courage
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou Bryce Courtenay was certainly onto something when he wrote The Power of One. There’s something significant about someone…
Take a Moment Monday: Make Good Art
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art…
Take a Moment Monday: Check in With Yourself
If today was the last day of your life, what would you change? When Elizabeth Gilbert quoted an older friend who said that every thoughtful woman, every ten years, should take some time to be alone with herself, in order to…
Write Around the World: Finding Friends
I’m in Onset, an historic Victorian waterfront community which has preserved most of the original storefronts and cottages. The Victorian charm of the era is evident in the many period homes here, including the one I am staying in. It’s…
Retreat
This crash had been coming a long time and my retreat wasn’t a quiet withdrawal, it was more a full-blown defeat. My inner supply of whatever it was I needed to go on was done. Someone said to me recently,…