On the first of each month, I send Monthly Notes to the people on my mailing list. Maintaining a newsletter is something I initially resisted, but it’s something I have grown to love. I look forward to writing a letter each month and sharing that more intimate conversation with my readers. While my Monthly Notes [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I had a choice. I could sit at my desk and get some work done. Or I could lay on the floor with my girl. She was stretched out on the hardwood floor in a patch of sun and she said, "Now I know why K likes to lay here". I wanted to be [...]
It's late afternoon as I type this and the sun streams through the window and there's tea with lemon, with sugar. There's my Polaroid camera and books and pens and sticks and things. I like things. And dinner needs fixing but the sunlight keeps me here a few minutes longer. I linger, not wanting to say much [...]
I pulled out this book yesterday (which I love) (thanks, R, for pointing me in its direction) to re-read its dog-eared pages. At the book's outset, Gail Sher outlines what she calls Four Noble Truths for writers. The fourth one is this: "If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is to not [...]
The morning is dark as I slide out of bed. I sit upon my wool yoga blankets and close my eyes. I breathe deeply. Ten minutes, maybe fifteen. After a few stretches for my spine, I rise and walk downstairs. My husband has left for work but the kids are still sleeping. The house is [...]
this week, i'm sharing a week-long journey of intention setting with some pretty lovely women. and, so naturally, things like intention and practice are on my mind. today, i shared with those gathered in the group how i love the word practice. not practice makes perfect, but rather practice as engaging consistently in an act [...]
today i'd like to introduce you to tara. she and i can't quite remember where we first 'met'. a blog led us to another blog perhaps, and eventually led us to discover each other. isn't this so often how the interwebs work? no matter, i'm keen on the work she does both artistically and spiritually [...]
sometimes i forget and i need a delicate sprinkle of tiny whispers to remind me to begin again flipping through my journal yesterday, i came to these words which i wrote back in june. and i thought to myself, yes. i know this is my lesson right now...to show up in my life, moving from [...]
sometimes i let things build in my mind. i create stories that are not reality. sometimes this is beautiful and sometimes this is a real barrier. sometimes i tend to tasks immediately. sometimes i let them sit for days, weeks, months, years. {yes, years} i dislike this tendency of mine. and i know it's completely [...]
baking bread the other day, i paused to take this picture, knowing words would follow...something about returning to the practice of baking bread struck me. i felt connected to the cups of flour, to the bread-in-the-making, to life. i thought about always returning to these elemental bits of measurement. i saw life reflected in this [...]
