Category Archives: Ideas
Young at heart
Beginnings and endings, I’ve been thinking about both today. A friend just announced the arrival of a grandchild—a beginning. My mother was dead before she reached the age I am as I type this—an ending. A potential client, in the … Continue reading
Before we know it
“Time passes. If we don’t play with our kittens when they’re small, they’ll be all grown up before we know it.” ~ Fiona Robyn, Writing Our Way Home Fiona was talking about the growth of her real-life kittens, Roshi and … Continue reading
Always a beginner
One of my quote-a-day subscriptions recently sent this, from Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969, p. 37): “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be … Continue reading
Capture a creature
Today’s blog post at Writing the Way Home includes a quote from Ted Hughes’ book Poetry in the Making. [I]magine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were … Continue reading
I’m happiest when………
This was harder than I expected it to be. There are so many things that make me happy. Singing. Singing almost anything. Singing keeps me sane. Seeing a flock of goldfinches at our bird feeders (finally, after years of having … Continue reading
Third Sentence Thursday: Full Dark House
For some reason, Thursdays have been the hardest days for me to find a topic to blog about. On other days, the problem is usually too many ideas, and not enough time to write about all of them. Not on … Continue reading
Mythology
Like resolutions, predictions flood the media around the beginning of the new year. Whether it’s a misreading of ancient manuscripts, half-baked interpretations of astronomical events, or the work of sensation-seeking conspiracy theorists, everybody gets into the act, predicting drama and … Continue reading
Never? Really?
On Dec 18, Adam Thierer wrote an opinion piece for Forbes on the 10 Things Our Kids Will Never Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution. Interesting, and thought provoking. Like most such lists, though, it demonstrates what I consider typical upper-middle-class blindness to the way the poorest Americans live. Continue reading
Frustration
I sit down to write in a comfy chair, large mug of hot tea and at least one cat, all within easy reach. Sometimes I look at the NaBloPoMo writing prompt, sometimes I already have something in mind. Keys click. Cats … Continue reading
And this is WHY I’m doing it.
I’ve recently started reading the Money Wi$e Women blog, part of the BlogHer network. On December 3, 2011, Sherri Edwards wrote about Making Time for What You Want in the New Year. It got me thinking about my life, and the things … Continue reading