Category Archives: Ideas

Thoughts, speculations, and occasional rants.

Expectations

“You’re doing NaBloPoMo? Why?” “It’s a bunch of mommy-bloggers and foodies, and they don’t write very well. Why associate yourself with them?” My colleagues and friends expect bad writing about subjects that don’t interest them, and that’s what they find when … Continue reading

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Beginnings

For most of my life, my year has begun in the fall. School, choir rehearsals, meetings for professional associations and clubs, theater and concert seasons all start in September or October. New clients generally come in the fall, in a hurry to … Continue reading

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Third Sentence Thursday: “At the heart…is fear”

At the heart of such hard-edged boundaries is fear.   from A New Harmony: The Spirit, the Earth, and the Human Soul by J. Philip Newell, p. 15, Kindle edition This sentence is from the Prologue, and comes after several … Continue reading

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Once more

Trying again to discipline myself to write a blog post every day. It may work, this time. I hope so. There are so many distractions—other things I need to do—and my energy level sometimes fades by the time I get … Continue reading

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Do you see the glass as half full or half empty?

For a while, back in the last decade, interviews for freelance contracts (and for full-time jobs, I assume) were loaded with pseudo-psychological trick questions. One I remember vividly involved a 5-inch high water glass with about 2 inches of water … Continue reading

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