Things are incredibly stressful right now and have been for several months. Right about the time I decided I wanted to have a blog and to really throw myself back into writing and creating, everything went a little sideways. There…
I have been thinking about all of the little losses we rack up on the journey of life. How many little hits we take to the soul. And how these little dings and hits can sometimes harden us. They can…
I write poetry because I have never felt like I had the patience to write a novel. Poetry is a quick one off which I usually barely even edit. That’s not a brag. It’s a declaration of my laziness when…
{ an essay of cut and pasted interconnected yet separate writings } Part I Anxiety has been my default setting for most of my life. It has colored every single moment, day, and memory for as long as I can…
I have not abandoned my relatively brand new blog. It’s just that there are days that turn everything on its head. Days that slip sideways and by evening the world is tilted a little differently than it was that morning.…
have subscribed to the Austin Kleon newsletter for years and I never fail to learn something from each offering. This week there was a link to an article about Dagny Carlsson who started blogging at 99 years old and kept…
Your writing/art is too basic, immature, pedestrian You are not a real artist No one cares or will see what you create What is the point of art?Don’t you have better ways to spend your time? You write/create the same…
A weeks old Austin Kleon newsletter I had sitting in my inbox has me thinking about routines. Not the getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed type routines, but routines for creativity and happiness. Along with all of the daily must-dos,…
I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. ~ Alan Watts Winter doesn’t seem to want to loosen its grip…
What does it feel like to raise children in a society that doesn’t honor motherhood? It’s waking up in the middle of the night for years. It’s being puked on and yelled at. It’s driving to play dates and classes…
